Draconian leadership

In reviewing your map (May 15) of COVID-infected people in Spokane County, approximately 0.08% of the population has been infected, based on the 2019 population census. It’s possible the number may be higher due to undiagnosed, recovered and/or asymptomatic cases, or lower if the total population has grown. It’s not clear if your numbers reflect actually sick (at home), hospitalized people or not ill, but with a positive lab test.

My question to public health officials, political leaders and university modelers (all of whom are probably still on the payroll) is: Is it worthwhile to paralyze the whole economy and society for an affliction, inflamed by a hyperventilating media, of so few people?

History will judge this mess of unpreparedness, erratic equipment needs, multiple treatments, vaccine expectations, testing dependencies etc. and determine whether or not so many people in variable geographic and demographic locations have been driven askew by “leaders” using such draconian measures.

Joseph Harari

Spokane