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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The writer is justifiably distressed that so many wonderful activities are being curtailed.
This happened during the terrible 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, too.
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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香蕉视频直播檚 mentally draining work.
I didn香蕉视频直播檛 vote for Trudeau, but I think that he香蕉视频直播檚 doing a good job of trying to get us to work together to stop this pandemic.
He and his family deserve some rest.
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Bad solution.
If our leader needs a quiet weekend rest with his family, it doesn香蕉视频直播檛 seem that we should whine and begrudge him that.
Marilyn Hansen
Summerland
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