Editor:
We will not be successful at stopping COVID-19 without doing two things. Testing everyone and providing personal protective equipment for all people.
There are many people with no symptoms at all that have this virus and can spread it for two weeks and it only takes one person to begin Infections all over again.
Don’t be fooled. There is no way to wipe this virus out until we all get PPE gear and wear it around others. If all who get it infect just two people the numbers reach into the millions very quickly.
Having lost my wife of 47 years just recently to pneumonia, don’t count on medical care to save you. I had it with her. They saved me but not her. With an overload of patients, care can not be as good as usual.
Demand that our government test all of us & get all of us N95 masks and gloves, and add gowns to public workers at stores where they encounter customers. This virus is serious and kills people in all age groups.
If we don’t, America will never win this battle. It’s a virus we can get over and over until a vaccination is developed and that may take years. Remember, a common cold is a virus. We still don’t have a vaccination for that. Don’t count on that any time soon. Be prepared.
Carl Sundberg
Sweet Home