Someone will ignore pandemic rules

DEAR EDITOR:

Outbursts of COVID-19 continue, probably largely due to rule breakers, especially the private-party goers.

This seems to be a thoughtless, ongoing, selfish human trait.

Being in my 90s, I can remember a heartbreaking example during the polio epidemic 66 years ago. I was then a “country doc” in Saskatchewan.

In our area, there were many deaths due to polio-caused respiratory system paralysis. Many others were left crippled by “infantile paralysis” as it was called then.

Despite this horror going on, one mother didn’t want to cancel her little daughter’s birthday party because the “little dear” would be so disappointed.

Even when her daughter developed a “little flu,” Mommy still invited a dozen children.

Every one, except her daughter, ended up with permanent paralysis of at least one limb. One of them, who I still keep in touch with, hobbles around with crutches and both limbs in braces.

Now, the similarly self-centred, using every excuse imaginable, flout the medically-researched and carefully worked-out rules drawn up to achieve control of the COVID-19 pandemic.

No self control. No COVID control.

William Bradley Houston, Penticton