Letter to the editor: Healthy citizens, healthy economy

Regarding Dave Majernik’s letter “Hysteria shouldn’t kill our economy”: I realize you are a Republican operative, but don’t you understand that you can’t have a healthy economy without a healthy citizenry?

You say it is “not uncaring to put coronavirus in perspective and consider the millions of lives lost annually to other diseases and drug abuse” and ask why this is different.

Well, it is different because diseases like cancer, heart disease, hemophilia, diabetes, lupus, Crohn’s and Lyme disease (just to name a few) cannot be contracted simply by being in the same room with a person who has one of those conditions. But coronavirus can.

I understand the need to open the economy and put people back to work. I just don’t trust President Trump to do it as safely as possible.

Richard Dulemba

Washington Township, Westmoreland County