To the Editor:

Some people call it common sense, others call it critical thinking or logic, and it is so essential to human kind that the survival of the species depends on it.

I am befuddled about those who don’t understand it, practice it or agree with it, as if you can argue about whether humankind should live or die.

The high visibility of anti-intellectual, anti-scientific attitudes can be traced right back to President Trump, who proudly flaunts his disdain for learning.

I want society to open back up as much as anyone, but I don’t want it at the expense of mega death.

The logic is pretty straight-forward: test, use PPE, practice social distancing, get the numbers down, THEN open up cautiously. Like, you put your socks on before your shoes. What is so hard about that, folks?

Obama had America prepared for such a pandemic, but Trump dismantled that program so he could rid the government of the ‘taint’ of one of our best leaders (who happens to be fairly adept at logic.) And then he gave the extra cash from a hollowed out government to his rich friends with a tax break. Yes, the bestest, most beautiful businessman.

The time to gear up production of PPEs and research an effective test and vaccine was in February or March. The administration had been warned several months earlier.

Where has he been, what has he done with his time, beside jeering at prepared people as perpetrating a hoax and abdicating all responsibility?

He tells states they are on their own, then intercepts their shipments and doles them out to red states. 

This is not the behavior of a leader.

Caryl Brt

Waynesville