Are you safe in America?
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Editor,
If a foreign military entered the United States and killed thousands of citizens, we’d be up in arms, literally. We’d rise as a nation to defend ourselves, and we would expect our president and federal agencies to coordinate a sleek and effective response to the invasion.
Such an invasion has happened, but the enemy isn’t wearing a military uniform. It’s wearing a lipid envelope and carries RNA instructions to conquer us, and it’s coronavirus. It killed 183,000 Americans, more than three times the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.
Our federal response has been minimal, which has resulted in more deaths proportionate to the population than most developed nations. We would have many, many fewer deaths if our government had responded like France, Denmark, Germany, Australia or Canada – where the per capita death toll is much lower than ours. Our federal government, under its leadership, sowed and continues to sow confusion instead of solutions.
At the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence said: “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.” The fact is we are not safe in Trump’s America. There is ample evidence of that every day. The death toll mounts, and still, there is little action to defend our citizens from the invader. All we get is the shoulder shrug from the President and him saying, “It is what it is.”
Stephanie Brancati
Big Arm
