Letters to the Editor 12-10-2020
The new red line Dear ER: Daring to question the Governor Gavin Newsom’s and Barbara Ferrer’s lockdowns is a red line not to be crossed for Manhattan Beach Council Members Hildy Stern and Nancy Hersman. (“The Great Hadley Debate,” Easy Reader, November 29, 2020). Stern is adamant that such thoughts are dangerous: “We have the model for the misguided strategy of herd immunity in Sweden, where this approach drastically, and fatally, failed.” But Sweden’s cumulative death total is actually lower than LA County (7,000 vs. 7800) even though both have a population of 10 million. Shouldn’t our local elected leaders be asking why nine months of restrictions haven’t produced any better results than Sweden’s, which has kept schools and restaurants open and has no mask mandate? Jim Butler Hermosa Beach Beats Hermosa Dear ER: At the Manhattan Beach City Council December 1 meeting, two council members made an open and public attempt to bypass Council Member Suzanne Hadley her rightful turn as ceremonial mayor of the city. While I am not a resident of Manhattan Beach, I felt compelled to contact Mayor Richard Montgomery to urge him to not allow this bypass to happen. In Hermosa Beach, we had a…
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