Letter to the editor: North Huntingdon commissioners' callousness

Your Dec. 13 issue was filled with articles about covid-19: weekly deaths hit a high in Westmoreland County, hospitals and health care workers plead with the community to follow CDC guidelines, health care facilities at breaking point, etc.

And then there was the article “North Huntingdon says ‘no’ to Wolf’s limits on indoor crowds.” The North Huntingdon commissioners are ignoring Gov. Tom Wolf and CDC guidelines. Their callousness is unimaginable — 3,000 Americans dying daily, and they thumb their noses at procedures meant to save lives. What depraved indifference.

They demand their freedom. Guess what: If you want total freedom, go live on an island all by yourself. But if you want to live in a civilized society where someone else is supplying you with health care, food, schools, utilities and safety, then you must consider other people’s freedoms and rights. These people may be of a different race, religion or political party and may have different opinions, but they have the same rights to life and liberty that you do.

Politics is not a sports game. You are not the winner if the other guy loses. We lose or win together. What a tragedy for our country that we allow some people to pull us apart. What a lack of patriotism when we do not think of our country as one, of our people as one.

Joanne Garing

North Huntingdon