{"id":805704,"date":"2020-03-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380925"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-liddick-spring-breakers-share-common-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-liddick-spring-breakers-share-common-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Liddick, spring-breakers share common attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Morgan Liddick\u2019s assertion of a \u201cBlind coronavirus panic<\/a>\u201d (Summit Daily, March 17), recalls spring-breaking students on crowded beaches saying \u201cit\u2019s not gonna stop us from partying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both display irresponsible attitudes toward the worsening crisis. The student doesn\u2019t know, or care, he could contract coronavirus, then unknowingly transmit it to others more vulnerable. Liddick argues if this epidemic isn\u2019t as deadly as the Black Death, it\u2019s no big deal. That\u2019s like saying your house burning was nothing because it wasn\u2019t as bad as the Great Chicago Fire.<\/p>\n

To those directly and indirectly affected, this is \u201ca pandemic worth worrying about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those directly affected include people who are sick and brave medical professionals treating them (many lacking necessary personal protective equipment, since we weren\u2019t prepared for a pandemic).<\/p>\n

Those indirectly affected include people losing jobs and income because employers determined the risks were too great to remain open.<\/p>\n

Liddick, would so many businesses (large and small) shut down, losing billions of dollars, for no reason?<\/p>\n

He fumes about \u201cpoliticization of epidemiology\u201d then proceeds to politicize it himself. President Trump did that, too, claiming it was \u201ca Democratic hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrast that with Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Maryland, who said, \u201cWe\u2019re not Democrats or Republicans in a crisis; we\u2019re all Americans and in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump boasted U.S. containment of the virus was \u201cclose to airtight,\u201d even though it was already beyond containment, with confirmed community spread. Trump\u2019s failure to act decisively, immediately, cost precious time that could have reduced its surge.<\/p>\n

In 2014, during the Ebola crisis (much less widespread here, thanks to effective containment), then-citizen Trump attacked President Obama, tweeting Obama should \u201capologize to the American people and resign!\u201d Wonder if he (and Liddick) will apply the same standards now? Don\u2019t hold your breath for an apology or resignation from either.<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Liddick\u2019s assertion of a \u201cBlind coronavirus panic\u201d (Summit Daily, March 17), recalls spring-breaking students on crowded beaches saying \u201cit\u2019s not gonna stop us from partying.\u201d Both display irresponsible attitudes toward the worsening crisis. The student doesn\u2019t know, or care, he could contract coronavirus, then unknowingly transmit it to others more vulnerable. Liddick argues if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 06:34:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}