Voters must take back American democracy. Donald Trump dishonors those who died to protect our democracy!

Echo opinion letter published in the Sun Sentinel, a South Florida newspaper: 

Over Memorial Day Weekend, while reflecting on the brave men and women who died protecting our democracy, I found renewed strength to fight back and not allow Donald Trump and others who are in power to steal our democracy.

Each day, multiple news sources report brutality endemic in the Trump administration. The daily reporting of corruption, theft of taxpayer funds for illegal purposes, insider trading by high-level leaders and repeated violations of our Constitution and the laws. 

If you look at more than one news source, you will readily see that where there’s smoke, there’s 🔥fire.

These corrupt actions are allowed by the three branches of government, controlled by so-called fiscally conservative Republicans. I say so-called, because fiscal conservatives claim to support limited government, lower taxes, reduced spending and minimal public debt. What happened to those beliefs?

On Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican-S.C., reacted to the defeat of a Senate candidate in a Republican primary after Trump backed his rival, saying: “This is the party of Donald Trump.” Is this your Grand Old Party (aka "Growing Old Party"), or is Graham correct that it’s ruled by one man who acts like a 👑king❓

On Nov. 3, please vote for candidates who promise to take back the Congress and protect our Constitution. Otherwise, your votes will sadly reflect that you favor money over all else, or wear blinders to bigotry. Or else, are you simply brainwashed by right wing organized religion or Fox (aka "Fake❗" News❓

From — Candice Clausell, Jupiter

Palm Beach warning - pay attention to public health advice

Two echo opinion letters published in The Palm Beach Post call for citizens to pay attention to public health advice, wash hands and practice social distancing, especially in public places. Meanwhile, the number of mobidity and mortality continues to increase and, unfortunately, will not be accurately counted because the numbers are under reported, as disclosed in The New York Times.

This photo was published in The Intercept

Amy Harmon in The New York Times reported "Coroners in some parts of the country are overwhelmed. Funeral homes in coronavirus hot spots can barely keep up. Newspaper obituary pages in hard-hit areas go on and on. Covid-19 is on track to kill far more people in the United States this year than the seasonal flu."

United States will be responsible for one out or three world deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Moreover, the United states population is 4.3 percent of the world's total number of people but the incidence of coronavirus is 28 percent of the pandemic victims.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.html
Total deaths in seven states that have been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic are nearly 50 percent higher than normal for the five weeks from March 8 through April 11, according to new death statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is 9,000 more deaths than were reported as of April 11 in official counts of deaths from the coronavirus.

Dr. Frank Lansville, medical director of the emergency department, sits in the E.R. of the Medical Center of Aurora, Colorado, on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Extra precautions and measures are being taken by healthcare professionals to protect against the spread of coronavirus within the hospital. (Published in The Denver Post.)

The new data is partial and most likely undercounts the recent death toll significantly. But it still illustrates how the coronavirus is causing a surge in deaths in the places it has struck... 

In The Palm Beach Post, the Florida newspaper published these two opinion letters:

(Wrong minded....) younger people talk about how they aren’t afraid to get the novel coronavirus; that more people should be brave like they are so we can get the economy back up and running. Your odds of dying are way lower than in a war, someone told me, so have the courage to face the enemy and we’ll get back to normal again much faster.

These people have it all wrong. They think they’re acting like brave warriors when they go out in public without a mask, or downplay social distancing in some other way, but instead they should see themselves as rats during the plague.

When the “brave soldiers” get infected, before they even know they have the virus they become a carrier, a vector for spreading disease and endanger everyone they come into contact with — maybe even people they’ve never met — by leaving the virus on some surface they later touch.

If they want to show their courage: Brave social distancing, brave having to wear a mask, brave the depression economy we will have to live through. That way someone’s grandparents will live to see another day.  From Chris Ely, in West Palm Beach

And this....

Jupiter (Florida) restaurant goers need to practice social distancing

When picking up takeout food at a popular Harbourside restaurant in Jupiter late last week, I was surprised and saddened to see dozens of young men and women standing in the small outdoor portion of the restaurant drinking face-to-face. They were not abiding by the suggested social-distancing or wearing masks. Many were young mothers with their young children.

Not only were they endangering each other, they displayed little or no concerns for the restaurant employees and customers picking up takeout orders.

These people obviously do not believe what they hear or see about the COVID19 pandemic.  From Steve Leber, in Jupiter Florida.