We can go on with life in responsible ways

As I write, like most Americans, my social calendar has been wiped for April and I have missed many things.

At the same time, the dire predictions of deaths from the contagion have been thankfully overstated. I see the mother in Iowa getting arrested on charges of playing on a sunny day at the playground with her children the other day.

I'm thinking the social and economic costs are beginning to outweigh cost of the disease, itself. And in my own personal opinion, humans are social animals and what Gov. Pritzker is demanding is social abstinence. Which is to keep us "safe" from disease, like sexual abstinence is to keep us "safe" from unplanned pregnancy and STDs.

Furthermore, as the "experts" have been found wrong, like those stubborn WMDs never found in Iraq, as American Citizens, it is up to us to signal when it's time for the over-steppers to get off of our toes. And with "nonessential businesses shut down" it seems a long shadow of overreaching, to me.

We all need to go on with our lives in responsible ways, like driving with our seat belts fastened, having "safe-sex" instead of none, we must find a way as Americans to be free and socially responsible with others or completely lose our way of living and go broke.

Diana Skipworth

Bartlett