When does a “My Turn” opinion piece become a public health menace? The Recorder recently printed John Blasiak’s piece in which he makes several claims regarding the virus, castigates public health officials and conflates basic consideration for others with “dictatorial foolishness.”
While the word length might be impressive, Blasiak writes with an authority he does not seem to possess. He makes some odd claims, such as “if the person isn’t contagious” then mask wearing is pointless. Well, yes, John, but how do you know if you are contagious or not? Most egregious is his claim that cloth masks are “useless,” in direct odds with the CDC and state public health advisements.
Perhaps John is omniscient, but until that is proven, he would be doing the community a favor to stop setting himself up as an expert and possibly instigating noncompliance with basic courtesy and real expert public health advisement.
Caitlin McKenna
Greenfield