Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Government overreach causes worker shortage
I recently went into a Wawa to get a particular sandwich I enjoy and found that the store was serving only a limited menu and the sandwich I was looking for was not on it.
When I inquired about why the menu was limited, the manager explained that due to not being able to hire enough employees, they had to cut back for the time being to keep up.
Now believe me, I understand there are more important things going on in the world besides my wanting a particular sandwich, but this is what happens when there is more government in our lives. Keep giving people incentives not to work and we create an unintended trickle-down effect for everyone that results from an overreaching government.
Russian cyberattacks demand action
To the editor: The United States prevented the Soviet Union from attacking us with nuclear weapons during the Cold War by amassing enough nuclear weapons of our own to destroy the USSR many times over if they ever dared to attack us. This was called the principle of mutually assured destruction and it is now time for us to use the same principle to deter Russia from further cyberattacks that can disable our entire defense system as well as water and electricity distribution.
This can only be done by threatening Russia with the same kind of cyber chaos that they are threatening us with now, and Sen. Mitt Romney, of Utah, has already suggested that course of action. I hope the new administration will take Romneyâs advice.
To the editor:
The Great Barrington Declaration was written by academics from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford universities. Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at Stanford and one of the co-authors of the declaration, argued in the October issue of Imprimis, a monograph published by Hinsdale College in Michigan, that hospitals would not be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients if the economy were left open, i.e., not locked down.
Now, of course, many hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients and it is clear that Dr. Bhattacharya was wrong. Hospital admissions have spiked and thousands of people have died who would not have if the economy were locked down in an early and timely manner. The Great Barrington Declaration has thereby given the town of Great Barrington a bad name and the good people of that town should therefore think about how they want to treat the signers of the declaration if they dare to return.