Letter to the editor: How is Gov. Wolf doing 'everything we can'?

While the state loses over $6 million a day in liquor sales, our governor proclaims, “We are doing everything we can to help.” How exactly? Safe practices are in place at many stores that protect both customer and employee. We can’t do that at our Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores?

By having an unemployment website that unemployed and self-employed people cannot get on for over three weeks? By laying off over 2,500 state employees who could be used in other areas? Say, for example, the unemployment office? Other states have put into place “safe” processes so at least some people can keep their jobs. Gov. Tom Wolf has proven himself inept in a crisis by just shutting everything down. Oh, and buy masks? Where and with what money, you may ask?

As Peggy Noonan wrote in the April 4 Wall Street Journal: “Everyone is fascinated that everything is closed but liquor stores remain open. This is because there isn’t a politician in the country stupid enough to prohibit alcohol in a national crisis. They may know on some level that no nation in the history of the world has closed both its churches and its liquor stores simultaneously and survived. Russia after the revolution closed the churches but did its best to keep vodka available because they wanted everyone drunk, which is the only way to get through communism.”

Peter Mamula

Venetia