Letter to the editor: Covid confusion and returning to 'normal'

Imagine if you will … an America paralyzed in fear. Consider covid:

• Virus: Was it developed in a lab or not? Transmitted by breathing or touching or both?

• Hand and surface cleaning: Two years ago, often; now, seldom.

• Shutdowns: Close small businesses and churches, but large box stores remain open.

• Masks: Don’t work, oh they do work; maybe two are better than one.

• Deaths: Exaggerated to include “with and from” fatalities, so dying in a car accident with covid is counted;

• Spacing: 6 feet separation for protection when masks fail.

• Vaccines: Only protect for several months without booster.

• Contagious: Covid may be “caught” multiple times with or without vaccinations.

• Children: Can’t get the virus, can get the virus, open schools, close schools, vaccinate children, maybe not.

Imagine if, along with covid-19 statistics, the mainstream media gave the daily number of cases for: cancer, stroke, heart attacks, the common cold, etc. You probably would feel a sense of fear and compulsion to conform. Injecting an experimental shot into my arm is one thing; injecting my child is another.

In my opinion, the above is factual and confusing. Are you confused? Americans “followed the science” down the yellow brick road without seeing a rainbow at the end.

The anxiety and severity of covid is waning. America may be returning to its pre-covid normal.

Now imagine how we have “fundamentally changed” America by giving up many of our freedoms over the past years with covid, illegal immigration, calls to defund the police, racism, the economy shutdown, etc.

This November, you can vote to return America to Americans. Do it!

Joe Lastik

Hempfield