Letter to the editor – 11/26/21

In a letter to the editor yesterday, I highlighted part of an 11/24 article in The Daily Press that warned of a city crackdown on those not wearing masks indoors at public places. These "scofflaws" would be offered masks, given warnings, and then fined $50 for the next offense, $100 for the one after that, and sent to reeducation centers for a third offense. (Just kidding. Third offenders get another $100 fine. That's only because the reeducation centers have not been built yet. Yet.)

In yesterday's letter I linked to a report that while masks in general were of little use, the most effective were the n95 type. For you scofflaws out there who might be approached by a law officer with a mask to give you, here is a link to what the n95 looks like. Should the officer try to give you anything else, tell him or her to stop wasting your time. (That may cost you $50, but it's for your own good. Right.)

https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Particulate-Respirator-Protective-TC-84A-9315/dp/B08YS4958R

What was overlooked in the Daily Press article was all the blatant scofflawing going on OUTDOORS. I go down to Fox Field every day for my 10-mile run and there is a new sign at the entrance that says: MASKS REQUIRED, yet nobody wears masks. (A few goose-steppers do, VERY few.)

The people down there must think they're at a college football game, and if you watch college football games on Saturdays, you will notice hundreds of thousands of people NOT wearing masks. Ditto the pro games on Sunday. Yesterday, there were three pro games, all in enclosed domes, I.e., INDOORS, and the only people wearing masks were the poor souls working the cameras.

Of course, that's not the case here in New Mexico, right? Ha! UNM football games don't require masks, vaccination proof, or covid tests. They are, according to Hannah Long of NM's Department of Health, a venue that "could become a superspreader event." That was last September, and there sure have been a lot of football "superspreader" events since then.

https://newmexiconewsport.com/unm-sports-fans-free-to-ignore-health-guidance/

What about Silver City and WNMU football games? I seriously do not know if the fans are allowed to attend maskless or not. I would hate to think that we've got superspreader scofflaws right here in Silver City, and by the hundreds, too. I'm sure somebody out there will let me know. TIA.

Peter Burrows, Silver City

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