Keeping COVID in perspective

This in response to a letter by Bill Robin of Dec. 18 claiming the deaths by COVID-19 alone are rare.

I have some words for this biased, misguided letter. Yes, there are people with underlying conditions. In the absence of the virus, most would still be with us, one of my best friends being one of them. But he’s dead, because he got COVID and the virus took advantage of him as an easy host. Others would have died had they not been vaccinated. Others did die because they thought there were computer chips in the vaccine and didn’t get one.

This was during the time when then “President” Trump was telling people “it will all go away like a miracle” and later suggested we pack the churches and just take shots of bleach. More concerned about his re-election than a world pandemic, he is Pre-Existing Condition Number One, he is solely responsible for increased unnecessary deaths.

I’m glad the letter writer had a mild case. How nice for him. I guess, as long as he’s OK, that’s all that matters. He can sit by the fireside with a brandy, musing about the virus and how he had a mild case.

Meanwhile, my friend is dead.

Louis S. Guagenti