[justjim]

Originally Posted by Don Ferguson

OK. I read seven pages of comments, so I gotta' vent!

The whole issue is so simple! You can choose any level of caution you desire. I respect your choice. Just stop trying to impose YOUR views on everyone else.

My situation: I'm 79, have AFIB, Pulmonary Hypertension, COPD with seven lung spots from way too many years of past smoking. In short, I have most of the co-morbidity problems. I work 3-4 full shifts at Spanish Springs Lanes and bowl in 4 leagues weekly. I never wear a mask when doing either event. I work and play elbow to elbow with many hundreds of people a week. Of the THOUSANDS of contacts, I have known a total of 3 people with Covid-19, one had it back in February and two this summer. A frightening and bad situation for all three. (They are all 3 back actively living life and bowling). I know that the death and actual case statistics are grossly inflated. (Contact me if you desire to argue - lol). My whole point is I have lived, and enjoyed, life as fully as possible during the last seven months of national trauma. If I had chosen the extreme opposite, that so many have, I would have lost those seven months of enjoyable life. I DO wear masks and comply with the desires of any store/home I am in. Not always because I agree, but to make the host person or business comfortable. Many of you have cheated yourselves and loved ones for the last 7-8 months, out of an enjoyable life. We don't have many more 7-8 month periods left in our lives folks!

I respect a person whatever choice they make good, bad or otherwise. COVID 19 is a virus that we have never been confronted with during my lifetime. There are many unknowns, but that said, there are some factual science that we know too. With all due respect I believe there is a road that you can travel that is somewhere between the “extremes” of never wearing a mask and being so paranoid about COVID 19 that you live like a recluse. I know it’s popular to be on one side of the debate or the other and as Eisenhower once said “throw rocks at those in the middle”. I believe in living my life and respecting others by wearing a mask as I think is appropriate and I don’t mind being somewhere in the middle on this subject. Wearing a mask, social distancing and often washing your hands seems to me a reasonable approach to the virus and still allows you to live a rich and active lifestyle.