Is it worth the trade-off?
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Editor,
I am a 79-year-old great-grandmother, and I have been watching our country’s reaction to the coronavirus. Adolph Hitler couldn’t imagine how slick this country has been shut down. Will we be able to save our capitalist system? So many small businesses will not survive. Many families will not survive. How many suicides will happen because a person has lost their job and can’t make the house and car payments?
People need to get back to work. Are those who will never recover financially from this shut down fewer than those who have died from the virus? I tend to believe that the deaths from coronavirus are a drop-in-a-bucket in comparison to those who are suffering financial loss, and again, how many suicides? Have our government statisticians kept a record of the suicides since this started? Montana had 311 suicides since Jan. 1. Montana had 387 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and 169 recovered and six deaths.
Some states like New York, Washington and California have had more cases and more deaths, but if the coronavirus deaths are compared to the homes lost, the suicides, the small businesses that will not recover, the farmers dumping milk that is their livelihood, the divorces, child and spousal abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, homelessness, is the trade-off worth it?
Grace Larson
Kalispell
