Take down Town of Hilton Head Island’s online how-to-golf-in-a-pandemic video | Letters
The Hilton Head Island Town Council is the biggest group of hypocrites around. The nerve of councilman Glenn Stanford posting a “how to golf safely” video online while voting to keep visitors off our island for 60 days (which, by the way, is illegal to do). That post should be taken down immediately and golf courses should also be closed immediately.
Is golf a necessity? I don’t think it is. Nor does golfing fall under the governor’s “Stay Home or Work” order, unless you work at a golf course or live on one.
Hypocrites, each and everyone of them.
It seems that our Town Council is above the law and beats to its own drum. Shame on each of them. Hopefully when elections come around, each one will be replaced.
Hopefully, we can get a Change.org petition started to have each one removed and get competent individuals in their place to keep our local businesses alive and to keep tourists coming back to this island.
Brian A. Spicer
Hilton Head Island
Missed proms the wrong focus at this time
I was horrified to see the front-page article on Monday, April 6, “High school seniors come to terms with closures due to coronavirus.”
It is a disgrace to indulge the disappointments of teenagers missing proms and parties while people are dying by the thousands and health care workers are putting their lives on the line every day.
A front-page news item? Really? I am outraged.
Elizabeth Fenlon
Bluffton
Ventilator saved my life
Some 15 months ago, an 87-year-old senior took an horrendous fall in midtown Manhattan while visiting family. He was ambulanced to New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Hospital in critical condition with a broken neck, injured disc and spleen, and breathing difficulties that evolved into pneumonia in both lungs.
Thanks to the skilled hands of a surgeon and a ventilator, he pulled through. That, of course, was me.
The insertion of the ventilator might have been “brutal”; I can’t say, I spent five weeks in the hospital with nary a memory of what I went through.
All I can say is the surgical staff, with the help of a ventilator, saved my life. I am certain that many sufferers from the coronavirus feel the same. Thank God for preparedness and medical technology.
Norm Solon
Bluffton
Pandemic is not the time for partisan pandering
Please, readers of The Island Packet, expand your consumption of news and don’t limit it to your favorite networks or newspapers. It is only then that you can truly get a more accurate grasp of the global pandemic that is upon us.
Access NPR, BBC, Reuters, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Associated Press, Politico, etc.
Because our nation is so divided, it is imperative that people educate themselves on a global perspective, not one that favors one party over the other.
To the letter writer asking citizens to stand united and put politics aside, I urge you to contact the current administration, and request that they do the same. This is not a time to be giving glowing remarks to people in leadership positions, but a time to reflect upon all the people who are putting their lives at risk to save others.
Regina Sixta
Beaufort
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