What do you think that will mean?
This is in response to Mikie Kerr’s recent letter regarding state employees “whining” about pending furloughs.
I want to point out that during these extreme economic times, who are the state taxpayers paying into the system? Who are the ones funding the ongoing, limping economy? What do you think will happen, Ms. Kerr, if state workers take a 10% hit? What do you think that will mean to our economy? Here’s hoping you don’t depend on state-funded resources in the years ahead … a great gamble, isn’t it?
Toni Reynolds
Kailua-Kona
Time ran out
The Hawaii County Department of Environmental Management meeting in December started off like a high school science fair. The sycophants pitched their local compost projects and the clock kept ticking. Serious business was not discussed because time ran out.
The previous November meeting was canceled because nobody could figure out the cyberspace technology.
All the while, private contractors and consultants continue to rack up billable hours on the Ka’u sewer projects. They are the winners in this game of kick-the-can-down-the-road. Tax dollars are raining down on these cronies like confetti. They will celebrate a happy New Year. We will sweep up afterward.
Jerry Warren
Naalehu
Am I the only one?
I was filling up at Costco when a man came over asking me to put on my mask. I told him, “This is the America and I am an American citizen. I have the right to breath fresh air. This is not a communist country.” I heard another customer reply, “Say it lady!”
He then came closer, at which point I said, “You’re less than 6 feet. Aren’t you afraid? Do you know why it’s 6 feet and not 7 or 3? There is no science behind this!”
A friend of mine, who is a pilot and flies critical patients to Oahu has not once had to fly a COVID-19 patient over. When I look at the numbers, I see a contagious virus with most people having no symptoms and a death rate lower than what the regular flu has been in the last six years. Am I the only one looking at these numbers? They are directly on the CDC website.
What bothers me the most is putting our children in masks who are the least susceptible to this virus. A pediatric doctor tested a child with and without a mask. He found the brain under more stress with a mask especially after light activity.
Now they want to inject us with a vaccine that has who knows what in it all in the name of safety. When did we stop trusting God, the one creator who made our miraculous bodies?
The man at Costco finally left me to pump my gas. I felt bad for him because I know he’s only doing his job and when is enough, enough? Is time yet to look deeper at this “new normal”?
Michelle Melendez
Kealakekua
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