Does anyone follow the law nowadays?

Editor: Last Thursday, I was running through the Lodi Lake nature area when I saw two guys with a dog entering the area. I got to car and called parks and rec and they said they would send someone right out.

I was walking my dog Friday morning and getting ready to cross Hutchins at West Century. The walk icon was lit — the red light was on for Hutchins travelers — but some man in a late model van tried to make the turn and had to hit his brakes right in front of me. He flipped me off.

Later Friday I had to hit my horn so the person in front of me would look up from their phone and drive.

I was headed to the Bay Area on Saturday when a guy leaving Food 4 Less used the left turn lane on Lower Sacramento

to cross over to the Walmart area. Coming back Sunday afternoon, the exact same thing happened again.

Driving home on W. Century at Mills I saw a car blow right through the stop sign about 40 mph, on his phone and heading west.

People tell me you should call Lodi PD. Why? That will just irritate me. I’ve called for speeders, gun shots, fireworks, illegally parked semi. and each time I get “we’ll get right back to you.”

Does anyone even know what that means? I think it means don’t hold your breath, by the time we get there the perpetrator will be gone and the problem will resolve itself.

I believe that is why people are blatantly breaking the law — because they can, without fear of being caught.

I’m sure Lodi PD is doing stuff, really important stuff. They are just not doing it around my neighborhood. So I’m done calling, period. And it is not getting better it is getting worse, much worse.

THOMAS YEAGLEY

Lodi

Why all the hype about COVID-19?

Editor: I was wondering if you or your readers could help me understand all of the hype related to COVID-19 and the experimental vaccines.

Just a few weeks ago I wanted to know how many children in the United States have died from COVID-19. I googled my online request and began perusing the CDC site. I discovered that as of July 21, 2021, 401 children have died since the pandemic began 16 months ago. I needed a frame of reference so I could determine if that was a high number or not.

Next, I asked Google, in an average year in the U.S., how many children die in automobile accidents. The U.S. Department of Transportation provided data from 2018 and stretching back 10 years. They consider children to be people ages 0 to 20 years. In the year 2018 there were a total of 3,372 child deaths in auto accidents and that was the lowest year of the ten recorded.

I don’t know about you, but 3,372 seems a lot higher than 401. In fact, 401 is only 11.89% of the total number of car accident deaths involving children.

Back to my original concern. Why all the hype over COVID19 deaths when we’re losing over 3300 children every year in car crashes? It seems to me that perhaps we should be formulating a strategy to reduce car accident deaths and less time stressing over a flu-like illness that has a childhood survival rate of 99.98%.

DENIS SILBER

Lodi

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