Outdoor dining helps restaurant owners

I am glad to see that the county has come to its senses and is now allowing restaurants and bars to open outdoor dining with alcohol sales permitted. At the same time, I would hope that owners and patrons will act responsibly and socially distance and wear masks when appropriate.

Otherwise, we will end up going backwards again. Hopefully this will help these owners to stay afloat and give the pubic some semblance of normality until this horrible virus is beaten.

SUZAN POLLACK

Downtown

Positive symbol

Who does FedEx think they are? They knew the team name when they signed up for the stadium naming rights (July 6, “Francona All for Name Change”). The team should move to another town and leave FedEx with their naming rights to an empty stadium!

Instead of complaining and saying poor me, the Cleveland Indians should be demanding that history not be scrubbed clean by social do-gooders who think they know what is best. The Indian forefathers were great fighters and only lost because a bow and arrow is no match for a gun.

However, they fought and fought as best they could with what they had. The Indian symbol depicts this and should not be erased today by those who never fought the Indians, but whose forefathers were winners and for some reason they now think it is their right to erase history.

Dartmouth made this mistake a number of years ago and now I just read that Shady Side Academy is doing the same thing. Pathetic! I graduated from both. The Indian symbol has always been a symbol of a noble hard fighter. Don’t try to scrub history clean.

ED WILSON SR. Golden, Colo.

The writer is a former resident of McCandless.

Actions affect all

We, fellow Americans, are in a time that proves the Dunning Kruger Effect is more than a theory. The careless and reckless response by many to COVID-19 guidelines could be seen as a natural selection process of the weak (minded) through lemming mentality and ignorance, if it weren’t for the fact that their actions (or inactions) affect everyone around them as well.

This whole idea of the wearing of a mask somehow infringing on constitutional rights and personal freedoms is the lowest form of idiocy. It’s a public safety issue; not unlike, say, stopping at red lights, using a turn signal or not walking into a store with a loaded gun and blasting away. And as a public safety issue, wearing masks in public places where social distancing isn’t possible should be law until this pandemic is over.

FREDERICK WOODARD

JR. Monongehela

Running away

With the coronavirus ravaging the United States, our president has referred to himself as a war-time president. But unlike war-time commanders in chief, our president has abandoned his troops, the American people, and ran from the battlefield of the virus, by pretending it will just go away and encouraging behavior that will spread the virus with more sickness and death to follow.

A dereliction of duty, and what an example. Remember in November!

STANFORD G. DAVIS

Wilkins