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. Itsa国际传媒檚 mentally draining work.
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He and his family deserve some rest.
As Teddy Roosevelt said: sa国际传媒淐omplaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.sa国际传媒�
What is the proposal of the letter writer? To protest by not voting at all in the next electionsa国际传媒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 doesnsa国际传媒檛 seem that we should whine and begrudge him that.
Marilyn Hansen
Summerland
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