Dear Editor
Here I am, sitting at home in isolation like everyone else, no place to go for coffee and wondering when this craziness is going to end.
Every day, Justin Trudeau is on the news promising money he doesn't have and we probably can't get. If you do get it, he will want it back. Then he is followed by medical people in shiny new suits, fear mongering that if we get this coronavirus we will die. For those people it's their day in the sun and it appears they don't want it to end anytime soon.
The people I feel sorry for are those in the nursing homes. They are trapped like fish in a barrel. The seniors did not get on a plane and go for a vacation. The seniors did not bring the virus home, spreading it near and far. Then for awhile the workers in the seniors' homes could not wear masks. There were none to be found. Our illustrious prime minister had sent hundreds of thousands of masks to Chin and elsewhere when the outbreaks were happening, which made a tremendous shortage in Canada. Now the workers in senior homes finally have masks. This is the same as closing the barn door after the horse has escaped. Lord love a billy goat, sure lucky we didn't use up any common sense there.
The problem is the planes. Every farm boys knows if you operate a tractor with a cab and air conditions, if you have the air conditioning blowing on your face you are going to get sick. Most people know nothing about circulating air. The first thing they do when they get on a plane is set the fan to blow right on their face. It is recycled air, man. If someone on the plane has a bug and they cough or sneeze, very soon that bug comes recycling along and blows right in your face. Then they wonder why they are sick. Duh.
We can self isolate until the cows come home and still not fix the problem. The problem is in the airplanes. That virus didn't come for Wuhan, China by itself. It travelled in a human. Number one, stop sick people from getting on planes. Maybe everyone on the plane should wear masks. Number two, get a better air filter system in the planes so innocent people don't get infected when riding on a plane.
Better yet, just stay home.
Victor Hult
Lloydminster, Alta.
