No equivalency to private sector

Your editorial on the public sector sharing the pain with the private sector ("We're all in this together") is the most inane I've ever read. There is no equivalency between furloughed nonunion public employees "sacrificing" either 5% or 10% of their pay to stay home and not work (which most would jump at without COVID-19) and union workers expected to "share" the pain sometime in 2021 (as they now collect full pay, benefits and pension while not working) to the pain and loss, for example, of the two restaurants your business section reported on the same day that were forced to close for good and the owners losing all invested after decades of devotion of capital and hard work.

If you are to opine in the future about those losing jobs and businesses and the harm being done, you would be wise not to be so tone deaf as to equate it with furloughed government employee sacrificing 5% of salary.

Dan Dowd

Long Grove