Nelson Otto
Jefferson City
Dear Editor:
There is an old saying that says "Strike while the iron is hot." Mandaters are calling for Cole County to have mask mandates. Proposing that those who are not creating these draconian laws of not caring for the people they serve. Unfortunately for the mandaters, they waited too long.
According to the numbers and charts they should have started their panic attack back in the first part of November. Actually, Nov. 9 to be exact. That is the day COVID numbers peaked statewide, as well as most of the counties including Cole. Since then the number of new cases and deaths have been dropping. The seven-day trend leveled and had a small uptick right after Thanksgiving (but no major spike as we were warned would be) and then had a slow but steady decline till after Christmas with another leveling off and another minor uptick (once again no major spikes). Since then the numbers have continued to decline. According to the data on the DHSS website there have been no COVID deaths in Cole County since Dec. 14. That's over a whole month. Now with the vaccine and the lengthening of days with a study increase in UV rays we should be on the final stretch of this pandemic.
So the time to panic and to demand action has long since passed, we are on the downhill slide folks. Get ready to breath in some unfiltered air and start treating the people you meet with love and kindness instead of disease-carrying, infectious animals. Won't it be nice to be treated as a human being again.