FEELING EXPOSED, READERS FEAR SPREAD
To all the mask-less walkers, runners, bicyclists, dog walkers, parents with kids and strollers on the trails and sidewalks, and to the mask-less grocery shoppers:
I am 62 years old and the sole caregiver for my 89-year-old mother who has dementia, and I’d like to know which of you will care for her if I get sick? When I turn my back to you, step away, or fail to respond to your greeting, please know I am not only trying to be safe, but, yes, I am silently judging and reproving you for selfishly putting me and my mother at risk. Very few of us know whether we are carriers of this virus.
Do I like wearing a mask? Is it comfortable? No, but the discomfort pales in comparison to the devastation spreading this virus can cause. It is such a small sacrifice that I can perform. I wear it out of respect and consideration for you and your families, and for the first responders and medical and other essential workers sacrificing so much more. Please do the same for me and mine, for our essential workers, and for our neighbors and our community. Is it so much to ask? Meryl Mccormick, Westminster
If we all wear face masks in public, we will all have a minimum level of protection, but this only works if we all wear them. Bicyclists of a certain age seem to think themselves the exception, and I say this as I return from the park where a 20-something bicyclist without a mask coughed in my face as she whizzed by going about 15 mph. She probably thinks she’s going so fast there’s no contact between her and the rest of the world, but she just speed-spit on me and it’s not the first time it has happened. Someone should give her and her kind tickets and an education. Susan Williams, Lakewood
I cannot believe Vice President Mike Pence’s arrogance and blatant disregard for established protocol during his recent visit to the Mayo Clinic. Even though he had previously been advised of the clinic’s policy, he proceeded to willfully ignore the mask-wearing protocol while possibly endangering the health of doctors, patients and other visitors. Pence stated that because he and his close associates have been frequently tested, and those tests were negative for the virus, that he did not pose any danger and didn’t feel a mask was necessary.
What on earth was he thinking? He is the head of White House Coronavirus Task Force. Has he spent so much time with Donald Trump that he has taken on the president’s “magical thinking?”
What a slap in the face to all those health care professionals who work night and day saving lives.
Thank God they take their jobs seriously. Kristi Schwindt, Littleton