Life is already finite

We’re all going to die. Life is finite.

Most likely, more people will die from car accidents in the U.S. this year than from Covid-19; about 34,000, or about 100 each day, every day. The pandemic is here and it’s not going away in a few days. That said: people have gone crazy with panic buying and a total loss of common sense. Unless you live in a cave away from everyone, you don’t need 50-100 rolls of toilet paper, 10 rolls of paper towels and as many bottles of hand sanitizer as you can find. Panic buying is ridiculous! All it does is deny a lot of people the opportunity to purchase a PRACTICAL amount of supplies, usually what they would normally buy for a week or two.

Too many Americans have become self-serving and greedy beyond common sense.

Think about this: the more of any product you buy, the more people will have touched it first. Those who make it, pack it, ship it, stock it, stack it and customers who handle it. Maybe one of them is a Covid-19 carrier? Panic has no good outcome from it.

I have never been more disappointed in my fellow Americans than I am now. Get a grip people. Get some dignity and compassion. If the British in London in WWII had behaved as we are today, they would have all perished from fear.

We’ll get through this.

David T. Bray

Spokane