Learn lessons from past infections

The risk-averse article May 18 by Michael Barone was one that made some sense to me. Obviously there is unavoidable uncertainty regarding how at this present time things will play out. Ultimately things will settle down and hopefully we will be more careful as a population as to how we can reasonably avoid infecting others.

The mask can help at this stage, but I think when this more active infection stage has passed, wearing one everywhere in public will only be acceptable to some extent, but should not then be an imposition.

Many of us have dealt with and lived through a number of infections. How do we know that some of the actions we have taken or been forced to take have necessarily achieved the desired outcome? Is being "locked up" and forcibly separated physically from loved ones (as in a nursing home) so beneficial to an elderly person? One would feel that these homes have become lonely prisons. What about the untold business owners who have been forced to close permanently? Tell me now where is the "greater good?" And to me, the greatest irony of all, this whole implementation is to save lives, but why is Illinois one of the greatest "come to" abortion states in the nation?

Roberta Spengler

Lombard