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Page A—6 — Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, March 26, 2020 Léfiéfié 053;. i537 a9; A—5 Why do we still let young people vote? Editor, the Journal I hope someone can help me out. We have said anyone under the age of 18 doesn’t have enough common sense to not smoke, so we made a law saying they cannot buy tobac- co products. They don’t have sense enough to know vaping is really bad for them (and everyone), so we made a law making that illegal for them. They cannot drink alcohol, or use guns or drive a car until they have lots of training. Now it looks like there has to be a law to keep them from congregating on beaches and‘ elsewhere because they do . not realize the harm they pos- sibly can do to lots of others, including themselves, and not mainly older people, because of this coronavirus thing. I have seen some young people say on TV “it isn’t going to affect me so I am going to do what I want.” Now tell me, since they cannot legally do most of all of the above and since it has long been established that the pen is mightier than the sword, why do we let them vote? Bill Robbins Shelton GOP supports bailouts for foreign workers Editor, the Journal The GOP is confusing me. We can start with trillions for a bailout package. It makes the Bush/Obama 2008 and 2009 bailout requests look like chump change. They propose handing Treasury Secretary Mnuchin half a tril- lion dollars to basically hand out without accountability for six months after the loan has been granted (in other words,- after the election). They are even stealing Andrew Yang‘s idea of flat out handing out cash, period. And, that does not include the trillions the Fed just pulled out of thin air and gave to Wall Street. If all of that is not top-down eco- nomic socialism, then I don’t know what is. All of this is in the initial GOP proposal, in- cluding money for the cruise ship industry. This last point is very in- teresting. First, I would not have put the cruise ship in- dustry in my top list of criti- cal industries. I have nothing particularly against them, but I just think there are more important industries like, say, aircraft production. But there is something else odd here. There are American cruise ship lines. But when you look up the registry of their ships, not one of them fly an Ameri- can flag. Popular flags are Panama, Malta, Bahamas, Li- beria or others, namely flags of convenience. This is not an accident, or even new. The motivation is to avoid U.S. laws, like the one requiring an American crew. The result is an extraOrdinarily high proportion of foreign workers on all these ships. Sure, they may have Americans at the home office. But that is noth- ing compared to the work- force on the ships. Now, here comes the GOP shilling for the cruise ships. Heck, even King Donald gave the industry a shoutout on Sunday during his press con- ference. His majesty stated that the cruise industry . employs a lot of people. He’s right. They do. But Ameri- cans are few and far between. The GOP is planning on a lot of scratch to be handing out that effectively bails out foreign workers. King Donald hates foreign workers. So what happened to America First? It couldn’t be lobbyists or campaign contributors, could it? Or protecting the financiers? No way! I thought you drained that swamp. Andrew Makar Hoodsport Todays challenges are interwoven Editor, the Journal Coronavirus. Climate crisis. Child poverty. The triad of above mala- dies attacking our country today are interwoven. Climate crisis requires in— novation to replace fossil fuels and disposables. The coronavirus begs a quick fix today in the form of medicine and long-term pre- vention in the form of vaccine. So far, the coronavirus has bypassed children. Should future potentially deadly vi- ruses manifest in youth, those with underlying physical con- cerns will suffer most. Of all children, the poor are theleast healthy. They often lack nutritious food, check- ups, dental ,care, glasses. One of these disadvantaged children could bring orbiting power stations to fruition 10 years sooner than anticipated. Or help with an apparatus to clean the oceans of debris and toxic chemicals. ,, It’s estimated that our nation’s GDP is $1 trillion lower due to child poverty. We can increase the value of our goods and services produced . by educating our youth to make and create. We must not hear the mantra that we don’t have U.S. citizens ca- pable of doing the work. Providing for our youth today saves money over a life— time and will help in needed innovation. As we come out of the pandemic and look to ways of improving our re- sponse, let’s get our priorities in order. Let’s level the play- ing field. Joan Gilbert Shelton A letter to humans, from Earth Editor, the Journal Dearest Humans, I find it tragic and interest- ing that you are caught so un- aware and unprepared for your present situations with me. If you think about it, it is really very logical. For centuries you have sucked and ripped from me, massive amounts of my resources, both living and nonliving. What is worse you have ignited much of it and sent the trashy smoke into the very air you breath and atmosphere I now struggle to maintain. You still don’t seem to know by now that I take my own course. I was here when you were not, I will be here when are you not. I’m not saying this little bug will wipe you out, but if you keep up your nonsense, something will wipe you out. Has before as you know. This little bug will run its course. Like so many before it, the devastating and minor. I am certain a genetic and de- mographic cohort will remain. Since you have yet to learn to get along, a major weak- ening of any of the so called powerful nations will leave the door open for the less en— lightened to make their move. This group no longer rides horse and throws spears. So, lighten up, wash your hands, stay away from each other (you social creatures- you) and hope the warm weather (another balancing mechanism I have) will help you wipe out this little pesti- lence—before it wipes you out. Remember, you exist be- cause of me, not vise versa. Your mother, Earth Jim Boldt Lilliwaup lSknkweasel’ politicians, media cause problems Editor, the Journal Some years ago, I was en- rolled in college to obtain my degree in addiction counseling and treatment. A bulletin at the campus displayed the fol- lowing quote. “It is important to have an open mind. How— ever, it is even more impor- tant to not open your mind so far that your brains fall out!” Unfortunately, it appears that tens of millions of my fellow “sheeple” citizens have never heard of this’useful idea. I viewed the CDC website on March 12 for U.S.A. statis- tics. Following are the influé enza statistics shown on that date. From Oct. 1, 2019, to ' Feb. 29, 2020, 34 million to 49 million cases of flu were esti- mated to have occurred during that 152-day period in the United States. That figures out to at least 223,684 cases per day or as many as 322,368 cases per day. Where was the red alert emergency when those cases were occurring? Also estimated were 20,000 to 52,000 deaths during that 152-day‘period. A death rate of 131 to 342'per day in the United States. No red alert issued! Also, on the CDC website as of March 14, there were - 2,628 confirmed cases of CO- VID-19 in the United States, 568 of them in Washington state. Jan. 21 is the date of the first acknowledged case of COVID-19 in the United States. This means that new cases have been developing in the United States at an aver- age rate of 48 cases per day for the first 54 days. The CDC numbers noted above reveal an influenza infection rate of 223,684 to 322,368 new cases per day. So, for those 152 days, the influenza‘infection rate was 4,660 times to 6,716 times more infectious than the current rate. Yet the gov- ernment, the media and the medical arena found no cause to alert “we the people.” Since the first acknowledged case of COVID-19 here on Jan. 21, 50 people have died. Just under one person per day. When we citizens were dying at the rate of'131, 342 deaths per . day, where was the red alert emergency for “we the people” then? This reveals to me that the 152-day level of illness and death is acceptable to the “sknkweasel” politicians, bureaucrats, uncivil servants, mainstream media, medical ‘ field and pharmaceutical in- dustry. The American public has been avalanched with a re— lentless blizzard of outright lies, propaganda, disinfor- ' mation, misinformation and bamboozle for decades by numerous aspects of the gov- ernment by way of the media, and by way of the government agencies and departments. The citizens have accepted this endless barrage infor- mational sewage as if it were honest and accurate. And in continuing to do so my fellow ignorant, dim-witted “sheeple” citizens are being herded, bamboozled and stampeded. However, the most destructive element of all of this will be that the “sheeple” will remain absolutely convinced that only what the “sknkweasels’7 pro- claim is accurate. Considering the CDC sta- tistics I have provided above, do you truly believe anything “Sknkweasels” are blathering? Of c0urse, the most destruc- tive form of dishonesty is the withholding of essential information of which many “Sknkweasels” are exception— ally skilled. Why has not the govern- ment, the radio stations, the television stations, the news- papers, the medical arena and numerous other sources provided “we the people” the above noted truthful in- formation I have revealed? My conclusion is that these self-appointed gods in govern- ment, media medical arena and the pharmaceutical in- I dustry have only three major concerns. That is the endless and unbridled accumulation of wealth, the accumulation of power and the accumula- tion of control over others. If they had integrity and were truthful, we would have been given accurate and honest information from the begin- ning with which to make our own sensible and responsible decision. Not this stinking fear mongering propaganda spewing from thousands of sources. “Sknkweasels” are a cross between a skunk and a wea- sel, its goal is to spew an endless filibuster of skinking lies and then make unbridled amoral efforts to weasel out of the legitimate consequences of such despicable behavior. I would be truly happy to be proven incorrect on every- thing I have written above. However, given that most of what I have written is already true and the rest is unfolding in front of us, I do not see that happening. Hank Wooldridge Shelton