Letters 12/02/2020

Dec. 1, 2020 Updated Tue., Dec. 1, 2020 at 4:38 p.m.

Mask it

An excellent letter by Skip Jiru from Athol (Nov. 16). An Army Medic who’s been there, done that and has a good word of advice for all of us. As he said, it’s really a no-brainer.

Most of us have been wearing a mask all along and it’s primarily for the ones we care about and hopefully surrounded (at 6 feet) by those who care, too. To those who feel it’s just a form of government control makes one wonder, wouldn’t it be easier for the government to take control when so many have become ill and/or are dying? When all that’s left are SHEEP? The ones wearing masks certainly are not the sheep! So who cares, eh?

Genie Wood

Coeur d’Alene

Which GOP is she with?

Does Cathy McMorris Rodgers belong to the GOP of Lincoln or to the GOP of Trump? I have repeatedly written to (McMorris.house.gov) and called (509-353-2374) her office, but received no response to the question of when she will recognize the results of the presidential election. It’s time for @CathyMcmorris to decide what she believes in.

Thomas Richardson

Spokane

Fluoride about money, not health

There’s money to be made selling soluble fluoride to larger cities with large municipal water supply systems. Otherwise, why would some obscure non-profit organization of unknown actual auspice dangle $4 million in front of some less-than-stellar, public brain trusts like the Spokane City Council?

They took the money. Now, Spokane is on the hook with fluoride dealers for $4 million. But hey, just put fluoride in Spokane water and they can keep the $4 million!

What a crock!

Mayor Nadine Woodward agrees, and it follows multiple relevant legal precedents. Let the citizens vote on it. It’s been voted down multiple times already! It’s their water. It’s their biochemistry.

But the City Council has found and erroneously justified a way to circumvent the democratic process and plans to spend the drug dealer’s money and by doing so tacitly OK fluoride for all Spokane’s citizens.

This is wrong!

Mayor Woodward? Hello! Step in. Restore due process. Bypass the self-impressed dullards wielding way too much authority over Spokane’s population given the inadequate size of their largely nonexistent, relevant insight and dubious intellects. Now, compromised by drug dealers.

Do you know where the fluoride comes from? I do.

I’m a geologist. You don’t want to know.

Eric Lafko

Spokane

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