MPPs should not be exempt from the rules

Re Ford missed a chance to get things right, Arthur, Oct. 28

Shame on you, Sam Oosterhoff!

I haven’t seen my friends or extended family for eight months.

I only go out when I must and I always wear my mask and have hand sanitizer with me. And let me tell you, it’s especially not fun wearing a mask when you wear glasses, because they constantly fog up.

I wear a mask to protect myself, but more importantly, to protect the people I come into contact with.

My four-year-old and nine-year-old granddaughters wear masks all day at school, except for a shortened lunch hour, when they have to eat at their desks.

All the businesses I have frequented have signs posted clearly on their entrances, saying “no mask, no service.”

As an MPP, you have an obligation to set an example for the rest of us and not to pick and choose what rules apply to you.

Shame on you too, Betty’s (restaurant)! I don’t expect your servers to be put into a position where they have to take on a public person in a position of power.

But I do expect the person in authority to enforce the rules.

Oosterhoff and his party should have been treated like the rest of us mere mortals, and told “no mask, no service.” Lilian Hulme-Smith, Richmond Hill

Words from Bruce Arthur’s article, “Monday, Ford said (on the pandemic) we have … members who think everything’s fine … others (who say) ‘Shut everything down!’ ”

The premier proudly claims the middle ground, a “happy balance.”

This attempt to please everyone is not an example of leadership.

It panders to the cavalier, as well as to the terrified.

The statement seems to say “I get it; I’m in the same boat.” But he doesn’t get it. He needs to find the courage to mandate mask-wearing in public.

We, all of us, must not allow the virus to find a place to survive. It needs live in the body of a host. Is a law going too far? Yes, it is going too far … for a government whose main aim is staying in power. Hugh McKechnie, Newmarket