MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave County Supervisor Hildy Angius, an ardent supporter of the President, beamed as she received and relayed a communication to all near the end of Monday’s three hour-long board meeting. Angius announced the President had exited the hospital where he’s been treated for the coronavirus.
“Our President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, just left Walter Reed and he said, ‘don’t be afraid of COVID.'” Angius chuckled, triggering additional jocularity from Supervisor Ron Gould, humored by the President’s Saturday drive around the hospital.
“Did he go home or just cruise around the block waving at supporters,” Gould queried rhetorically.
Smiles and laughter at that point followed some terse discussion about health department inspections at businesses. Angius is growingly outraged that citizens can remain anonymous when they allege that enterprises are not complying with coronavirus regulations and restrictions.
Angius said that opens the door and invites ex-spouses and rival businesses to abuse the privilege of anonymity to pursue personal agendas and vendettas.
“I just think this whole anonymous snitching is un-American and I think it’s leading to a bad, bad, bad place,” Angius said. She said several businesses have been inspected on numerous occasions.
“After a while it’s just harassment. How much more are we going to torture our businesses? I mean, honestly. They’re trying so hard to stay open,” Angius said. “If people go into a restaurant and don’t like what they see, they should turn around and leave instead of picking up a phone (to complain).”
Gould suggested other approaches to dealing with the pandemic would be to improve public health so people alleviate themselves of problems rendering them susceptible to COVID-19. He said continued isolation of Americans will delay development of coronavirus immunity.
“You gotta open back up at some point if you want to reach herd immunity,” Gould said. “Otherwise if you continue to stay hunkered down it might be years before you reach herd immunity.”
Department of Public Health Director Denise Burley expressed caution in responding to Gould.
“The herd immunity piece is still in question,” she said. Burley said there are lots of unknowns in that arena and that she believes continued handwashing, face cover and social distance protocols are best practice at this point in the pandemic
- Dave Hawkins
Gould must have gotten his science capabilities from Fox News. Using his theory a couple of million deaths are fine to achieve “herd immunity. Insane.