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Isolated by COVID

It is up to us to restrict COVID’s resurgence | Editorial, May 25

I write to you from Frankfurt, Germany, the place I’m spending surprising time in isolation due to a constructive COVID check prior to return to my residence in St. Petersburg. Fully vaccinated and doubled boosted, I nonetheless contracted asymptomatic COVID someplace alongside our in any other case fabulous travels to Norway and Germany. Masks and social distancing have fallen by the wayside right here as effectively.

I now know that underneath our present social conduct it’s not a matter of if however when one will expertise COVID. So, be ready. I’m satisfied that my vaccination standing afforded safety from extra critical sickness. This might have been far worse.

Consider what different precautions you’ll take and, when COVID drops by for a go to due to our collective complacency, what’s going to you do? For me, impulsively, the airways handled me as if I had leprosy. Thank goodness for the quick assist and help of my German buddies. By the way in which, I simply examined unfavorable on a house check and am eager for an official unfavorable check quickly so I can return residence to St. Petersburg.

Stephen Ritch, St. Petersburg

Assault rifles should not pro-life

They had been youngsters. Let’s not neglect. | Editorial, May 26

If these pro-life governors signing legal guidelines to ban abortions had been actually “pro-life,” they might as an alternative be signing legal guidelines to ban assault weapons.

Marilynn Myers, St. Petersburg

Open carry subsequent to college

A killer’s warnings | May 26

Let me perceive this. In Texas anybody can carry a firearm with no license so long as they don’t seem to be inside the college (or a number of different locations), So, if that’s true, then anybody can carry a firearm simply exterior college grounds? Does anybody not see the issue with this state of affairs? Are we not supposed to do one thing till an armed particular person is definitely inside? This shouldn’t be rocket science, individuals. The solely individuals who might be helped by psychological well being remedies are apparently the members of the Texas authorities.

Gary Washer, Tarpon Springs

Hard on rental homeowners

DeSantis indicators property insurance coverage, rental reform payments | May 27

I’m a rental proprietor in St. Petersburg. The invoice treats rental homeowners and the associations they elect as step-children as a result of we can not go into the mortgage market to safe a mortgage for main repairs as single residence homeowners can. Many or most rental homeowners won’t be able to afford the large assessments this invoice will mandate which suggests they might have to promote their condos, assuming anybody would purchase them with prohibitive assessments. I feel with passage of this flawed legislation, politicians in Tallahassee will turn out to be the enemy of two million rental homeowners.

Frank Lupo, St. Petersburg

Keep them away

They had been youngsters. Let’s not neglect. | Editorial, May 26

To mourn shouldn’t be sufficient, to supply ideas and prayers shouldn’t be sufficient, and to cry shouldn’t be sufficient. I’m satisfied that each mom ought to refuse to ship their kids to any college till Congress will enact strict gun restrictions signed by the president. That would work. The psychological well being assets could be part two.

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A matter of psychological well being

As a faculty 12 months ends, America goes numb | Column, May 26

Here’s one for our new public college math textbooks: If there are 100 automobiles in Pinellas County, what number of deaths by automobile accident would there be? If there have been 1,000,000 automobiles in Pinellas County, how many individuals could be killed in automobile accidents? Perhaps the answer to freeway deaths is healthier entry to psychological well being counseling? Or maybe the answer is to get extra automobiles off the highway.

Maggie Talbot, Clearwater