From Charles Brentner

Monroe

To the editor:

When I was a young child I attended my local library’s summer program. Along with events at the library there were things like field trips to zoos. One day the library took us to Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, Ill. We kids had a good time seeing all the animals. Around a week or so later a letter came (from the library) in the mail. It seems one of the kids (which one wasn’t identified) had been feeling ill but his parents let him go on the trip anyway. It turned out that he had the Mumps.

I didn’t get it, and I don’t know if anyone else caught it from him, but it was irresponsible of his parents to expose the rest of us. Now we have the Coronavirus making its way about the streets of our country, and people are still not exercising good judgment by avoiding large social gatherings. Granted that younger people may not develop as severe a case as older people, or like those who have medical conditions (like myself, I have Diabetes) but what gives them the right to put others at risk?

The virus can be in your system for a week or more before you show symptoms, and even if you don’t get very sick yourself there are others around you who may not be so fortunate. Parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, neighbors, etc. Each of us owes it to those around us to exercise good judgment and must do our part to keep this pandemic from spreading any further than it can.