Letter to the editor: Save lives by wearing a mask

Long after the world recognized how to defeat the spread of covid-19, the American deniers continue maskless events to propagate up to 1,000 new daily deaths. And now preexisting conditions don’t count? Comorbidity, or having a preexisting health issue, was not a conscious choice for most of the 211,000-plus American covid-19 deaths, nor for their surviving families. The weekly current covid-19 American death rate of 1,000 per day is six times the European death rate. Why?

Modern medicine prevents early death from many preexisting health issues, but covid-19 overwhelms too many people, including the young. Whole country societies have proven that universal mask-wearing stops the virus spread, and leads to open economies in much of the world.

Why can’t Americans follow the known and demonstrated lifesaving mask-wearing? Our leaders have repeatedly violated company and regional rules by not wearing masks and not showing their supporters how to save lives during the pandemic. Do deaths among Trump and Republican event attendees not count?

Save yours and others’ lives by disciplined mask-wearing everywhere, social distancing, sanitizing and avoiding crowded events. Walk away to continue life. And vote on Nov. 3 for yourself and for those unnecessarily lost to this tragedy.

Walter Cebulak

Murrysville