Omicron deja vu! Wear a mask!

Echo opinion letter published in The Plain Dealer, a Cleveland Ohio newspaper:

Wearing masks are a noninvasive mitigation effort to stop death from coronavirus and people should wear them!

It is déja vu all over again.

Last year, we reopened schools, shopping and sports venues and there was a coronavirus surge and hospitals were overrun. 

Yet, here we are again -- another COVID surge and hospitals at capacity. (Coronavirus disease: COVID-19, Delta variant and now Omicron!)

More than 800,000 Americans have died from COVID. 

If you don’t want the vaccine, don’t take it. (Maine Writer OMG- -  #SIASD!)---But, can we please at least agree that a mask is a noninvasive mitigation effort to stop death from an airborne infection?

EVERYONE should wear a mask for ONE year. Is that asking too much to save our children, our loved ones, our heroes and First Responders?

(And nurses, and physicians and health care providers!)

Or are the lunatics running the asylum?

From Robert Toth,  Lakewood, Ohio

Maine Writer P.S.
1.  Taking steps to reduce the spread of infection, including getting a COVID-19 vaccine, are the best way to slow the emergence of new variants.
2.  Vaccines reduce your risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.
3.  COVID-19 booster doses are recommended for adults ages 18 and older. Teens 16–17 years old who received Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines can get a booster dose if they are at least 6 months post their initial Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination series.