Letter: Our leaders have lost touch with reality
People gather during the Utah Business Revival rally, calling for Utah's economy to be re-opened, Saturday, April 18, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Utah will aim to reopen restaurants and gyms and resume elective surgeries in early May under a plan unveiled Friday by Gov. Gary Herbert to gradually reopen the economy that has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Have you noticed that all the people who are enforcing the "stay home" directive, or who are supporting that directive, have "essential jobs." They have no skin in this game.
There have been 20 deaths in Utah because of the "virus" in six weeks. Auto accidents have caused more deaths in that same time period, while there are 33,000 new unemployment claims in Utah.
I am thinking our "leaders" have lost touch with reality.
Steve Williams, Sandy
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