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Coronavirus doesn’t care

In referencing Angela Jensen’s letter (June 29.), here’s a little synopsis of the cause and effect of COVID-19: It starts with droplets from an infected person’s breath, cough or sneeze. It might be in the air or on a surface before you touched your eyes, nose or mouth. It moves down the respiratory tract possibly inflaming the lungs making it difficult to breathe. It damages tissues and blood vessels. Fever, rash, stomach pain, vomiting, heart problems and diarrhea.

It doesn’t discriminate but has a tendency to work harder on children and seniors. Even though most healthy people who contract COVID-19 experience mild symptoms, this disease is frighteningly fatal (over 125,000 U.S. deaths as of this writing). This is a pandemic that continues to ravage populations worldwide. It doesn’t care if you’re black or white, young or old, male or female. To the coronavirus, no life matters.

So Angela, if you don’t want to wear a mask, good for you but please, stay away from me.

Joe Speranzi

Spokane



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