{"id":807134,"date":"2020-05-05T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382762"},"modified":"2020-05-05T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:15:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-you-cannot-tell-second-home-owners-to-stay-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-you-cannot-tell-second-home-owners-to-stay-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: You cannot tell second-home owners to stay away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"53.719561454126\">\n<p>This foolishness must stop.<\/p>\n<p>Are you kidding me? The people who spend much of our lives here (myself since the 1970s) are supposed to abandon our homes on your whim? I would ask why, but I know. And the answers are idiotic.<\/p>\n<p>We own a home here, and we will live here when we can and want to. Don\u2019t you dare suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-urges-second-home-owners-to-stay-away\/\">CJ Milmoe<\/a> for saying that the county encouraging second-home owners to stay away is \u201cthe dumbest thing he\u2019s heard a resort community say.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And you were exactly right, Milmoe, when you said, \u201cSomebody\u2019s got a home here. They come. They drive to it. They go inside. That has zero impact on public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what we do. And telework a lot.<\/p>\n<p>But we do something else. We spend money that Frisco desperately needs. We pick up food from restaurants that really need business. We support businesses here, completely safely. I just worked a sale with a local business for some home stuff I needed. Phone calls, texts, pictures traded \u2014 safe and profitable. Of course, it would have been a lot easier if I could have safely walked in and purchased what I needed, but that\u2019s a whole other problem. (Businesses should be allowed to safely function!)<\/p>\n<p>Dumbest comment: Elisabeth Lawrence: \u201cOf course they would want to come to their second home, but we might have very different rules than wherever they are coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Lord have mercy. What are these \u201cvery different rules?\u201d We have masks, 6-foot social distancing, clean your hands, disinfect, etc., throughout the U.S. What else lady?<\/p>\n<p>We have to pick one address for legal purposes, but that does not make our home here somehow not our home. And you will not tell us to stay away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.256871035941\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 sd-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.085106382979\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a Summit Daily News reader, you make our work possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now more than ever, your financial support is critical to help us keep our communities informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having on our residents and businesses. Every contribution, no matter the size, will make a difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your donation will be used exclusively to support quality, local journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><button class=\"btn\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickBelow()\">Donate<\/button> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-you-cannot-tell-second-home-owners-to-stay-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This foolishness must stop. Are you kidding me? The people who spend much of our lives here (myself since the 1970s) are supposed to abandon our homes on your whim? I would ask why, but I know. And the answers are idiotic. We own a home here, and we will live here when we can [&hellip;]<\/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-807134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 00:21:17","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\/807134","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=807134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}