Letter to the editor: On covid, where's common decency?

A recent front-page photo showed a youth at a school mask protest holding a poster that read “Communism spreads faster than covid.” What does that even mean?

More than 685,000 Americans have died from covid. Thousands of new patients are dying each day. Nearly 42 million have contracted the disease.

Where are the 40-million-plus communists? I have never so much as seen one. And why would any student skip class to tell the world something so dumb?

In the Sept. 10 edition, there was a photo of a Kiski area woman holding a sign that declared, “Your health is not my responsibility.” In Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and the Jewish faith, yes, Mom, it certainly is.

Here I always thought I had an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are apparently telling you that if they pass covid on to you and you later drown in your own blood, they expect you to blame the communists instead.

Whatever happened to common decency? Concern for your fellow Americans, compassion, duty, fellowship and humility contributing to the national good?

These anti-maskers have descended on local school boards like lynch mobs. Even students have been manhandled while their masks are ripped right off. Teachers have been punched. School officials have been threatened with death.

These pathetic complainers describe themselves as patriots. Really? These anti-Christian, anti-American values jokers are too selfish and amoral and none too bright to ever feel ashamed.

Jim Harger

New Kensington