Letter to the editor: I trust the doctors who saved my life

I was born with a rare congenital heart defect that has required multiple open-heart surgeries. I wear a mask because I trust the doctors and experts who saved my life.

It was inevitable, I suppose, that wearing masks has become a uniquely partisan issue in America. This, in my opinion, is because the Republican Party has chosen to disregard science if it doesn’t fit its narrative. The Republican Party is all for the kind of science that helps them drill for oil, go into space or blow things up. But public health experts? Climatologists? Well, the Republican Party seems to know more than them. And what do the experts know, anyway?

The Pennsylvania Republican Party in the state Legislature knew that one of its members tested positive for coronavirus and chose to keep it a secret as they were lying to the American people and making us choose between human lives and the economy. When the Democrats expressed outrage, they were “overreacting.” And yet here, some members of the Pennsylvania Republican Party are so outraged that they are trying to impeach a Democratic governor, even though the restrictions the governor mandated helped to decrease coronavirus cases.

If only Americans would wake up to the realization that the Republican Party does not seem to care if they live or die. I don’t think they even care about the economy, just about keeping their power.

Lynne Hughes

Baldwin