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THEM: Maybe they’re right

| January 24, 2021 1:00 AM

Hey all you folks out there who don’t want to wear a mask, I hear you. How many freedoms are we supposed to give up anyway?

THEY say we have to stop at a red light. THEY say we have to drive 25 mph down Sherman Avenue. THEY say we have to wear clothes in public. THEY say we have to wear a seatbelt.

THEY say kids have to be strapped into a safety seat. THEY say we can’t drink and drive, and just recently, THEY say we can’t talk on the cellphone while driving unless it’s hands free. THEY keep saying we should wear a mask.

Here is what I say. Let’s all get naked, jump in the pickup, put the kids in the back, drive down Sherman Avenue at 80 mph while drinking a beer, talking on the phone and shooting a gun out the window, and definitely not wearing a mask.

Oh gosh, I just read what I wrote. What was I thinking? I guess THEY are the people who try to protect us. Maybe we should listen to THEM. It might save a life, including your own. WEAR A MASK!

JIM GERLACH

Coeur d’Alene