Letter to the editor: How about we all make our own mask decisions?

I was both saddened and amused by the front-page story in the May 18 print edition with the headline “On? Off? Mandate on masks confuses.”

Let me propose a novel idea. How about letting people decide for themselves whether or not they want to wear a mask? It is called freedom. But since our freedom has been taken away for over a year, and people are so used to the government (at just about every level) telling them what to do, most of us have lost the ability to make independent choices.

George Silowash

Penn Township, Westmoreland County