Since March 2020 when this pandemic started, I have learned that this virus is very intelligent. I had expected people to be dropping dead in the streets based on the media hype, but the virus seems to have evolved so much in the past five months that it:

• Understands that it cannot travel any farther than 6 feet between any two people.

• Even though it is three times smaller than a particle of cigarette smoke, it cannot penetrate a mask that a smoke particle has no trouble penetrating.

• It cannot go around such things as face shields or Plexiglas barriers. It somehow knows its boundaries and limits.

• It cannot infect you if you are in a bar and you order an alcoholic beverage and a food item. This is what confuses me. Is it the alcohol or the food item that has the effect?

• It cannot affect you if you go to a car show where over 20,000 people are allowed, but it can if you attend an event where greater that 250 people attend. Somehow it has learned to count.

• The death toll in Westmoreland County from covid-19 as of August 31 was 49. The population of Westmoreland County in 2018 was 348,899. Thus, the mortality rate is 1.4 per 10,000 people. Why the extraordinary measures?

I really wish someone would explain this to me, as I am open to scientific discourse regarding this matter.

George Silowash

Penn Township, Westmoreland County

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