Dear Editor:
In a recent letter, the author was decrying the fact that social distancing was making life miserable for him and his family.
Many people do not understand how contagious air-borne viruses can be.
For instance, if you have never had chicken pox and then you sit down in an average-sized living room with a person with active chicken pox on the other side of that room, you will be contaminated and get sick from the airborne chicken pox virus.
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Scientists are still trying to figure out COVID-19鈥檚 infectivity and how to counteract it.
The writer is justifiably distressed that so many wonderful activities are being curtailed.
This happened during the terrible 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, too.
This is a quote from that time: 鈥淲e are maintaining this quarantine for the benefit of all. It is not a pleasant or profitable undertaking. When whole families have been wiped out around us, isn鈥檛 it worthwhile to maintain a strict quarantine here, although it entails inconvenience, hardships and financial loss?鈥�
Is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau justified in spending a weekend at his Harrington Lake cottage with his wife and three children?
Trudeau has enormous stresses in dealing with the pandemic, economy, and the various needs of all parts of this country. It鈥檚 mentally draining work.
I didn鈥檛 vote for Trudeau, but I think that he鈥檚 doing a good job of trying to get us to work together to stop this pandemic.
He and his family deserve some rest.
As Teddy Roosevelt said: 鈥淐omplaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.鈥�
What is the proposal of the letter writer? To protest by not voting at all in the next election鈥oping that others will do likewise so that a protest is noticed?
Bad solution.
If our leader needs a quiet weekend rest with his family, it doesn鈥檛 seem that we should whine and begrudge him that.
Marilyn Hansen
Summerland
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