Dear Editor,

The only conclusion one may possibly reach from reading some opinion letters in The Standard, is there must be something in the Kool-Aid the writer is drinking. How else can you explain (in this information age) the COVID-19 hoax, especially when the writer uses CDC information to attempt proving her ill-conceived opinion. She writes, “The DCD has just updated its statistics that 94% of the supposed COVID-19 deaths were not actually COVID-19 deaths. They were advanced in age and had 2-3 comorbidities, which in plain English means they died from natural causes or from something else.” She then asserts, “… this whole event was a miscalculated virus at best or leaning towards (sic) a manufactured crisis. Either way, there is no pandemic and there is no emergency.”

Notice how the writer cleverly omits the CDC figures of 200,000-plus deaths attributed to COVID-19. Also suspect in this line of thought; if those individuals with pre-existing conditions have lived for perhaps years and years with those conditions, then upon contracting COVID-19 died, shouldn’t the logical inference by, COVID-19 might have actually been the cause of death? Let us not forget on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, even Trump said this on his June 17 visit to Tulsa. “The pandemic is fading away.” Just a hunch but I’d bet the writer would not volunteer to work on a COVID-19 hospital floor without some form of PPE (even if a hospital would allow it).

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution provides for such events. “Congress shall have powers to lay and collect taxes … to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare …” I suggest this includes biological, as well as warfare, or other forms of attack.

Do people object to wearing seatbelts, follow speed laws, do you object to laws dictating how we deal with sewage, or the myriad of other laws governing everyday life? Frankly I prefer to get my information from reliable scientific sources, not from people who feel this is government overreach.

Lloyd Dickson

Seligman

Dear Editor,

The only conclusion one may possibly reach from reading some opinion letters in The Standard, is there must be something in the Kool-Aid the writer is drinking. How else can you explain (in this information age) the COVID-19 hoax, especially when the writer uses CDC information to attempt proving her ill-conceived opinion. She writes, “The DCD has just updated its statistics that 94% of the supposed COVID-19 deaths were not actually COVID-19 deaths. They were advanced in age and had 2-3 comorbidities, which in plain English means they died from natural causes or from something else.” She then asserts, “… this whole event was a miscalculated virus at best or leaning towards (sic) a manufactured crisis. Either way, there is no pandemic and there is no emergency.”

Notice how the writer cleverly omits the CDC figures of 200,000-plus deaths attributed to COVID-19. Also suspect in this line of thought; if those individuals with pre-existing conditions have lived for perhaps years and years with those conditions, then upon contracting COVID-19 died, shouldn’t the logical inference by, COVID-19 might have actually been the cause of death? Let us not forget on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, even Trump said this on his June 17 visit to Tulsa. “The pandemic is fading away.” Just a hunch but I’d bet the writer would not volunteer to work on a COVID-19 hospital floor without some form of PPE (even if a hospital would allow it).

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution provides for such events. “Congress shall have powers to lay and collect taxes … to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare …” I suggest this includes biological, as well as warfare, or other forms of attack.

Do people object to wearing seatbelts, follow speed laws, do you object to laws dictating how we deal with sewage, or the myriad of other laws governing everyday life? Frankly I prefer to get my information from reliable scientific sources, not from people who feel this is government overreach.

Lloyd Dickson

Seligman