Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

To date, 100,000 Americans have succumbed to the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. So far, Wrangell has been spared, largely due to our remote location and precautions taken by the town fathers and our governor, conscientious individuals devoted to the well-being of our town. How blessed we are to have them.

Talk, talk, talk: meetings, broadcasts, work-sessions, notices posted on store fronts, newspaper articles, mandates, brainstorming, continually. It's all we hear. After a while, we tire of the subject, all of us, but we can't get away from it. We long for normalcy, but it ain't happenin', not yet anyway.

But, just imagine for one brief moment that it is the life of a loved one of yours that is at stake. Bring it real close to home -- someone you love. his or her life has been spared because of all of the above precautions, inconveniences, considerations, time, expense and aggravation. That life so special to you personally has been spared. How blessed, how thankful, how happy would you feel?

My personal view, and I can speak only for myself, is that if only one life here in Wrangell were to be spared, even if that of a stranger, someone I didn't even know, then I would rejoice for just that one. All the inconvenience to all the people affected would have been justified for this one single life.

Rosemary Ruoff