Most people were probably shocked and appalled by the quotation from the recent commentary of Larry Wood in which he said” I believe that, had a Democrat been governor, the guns would be coming out by now and armed confrontations between protesters and law enforcement would be happening on a regular basis.” Good grief!
Didn’t those that oppose Democrats, many of whom would identify as Republicans, used to claim to be the party of law and order, not armed confronters of law enforcement people?
Is Mr. Wood not aware that many prior protests in our country did not involve armed protesters? In fact, many protesters followed Martin Luther King:s guidance for nonviolent protests.
Does he really think that if Mark Begich had been elected governor, that Alaskans would have armed themselves and confronted the police? Who are these people who would confront law enforcement with guns and what are they thinking?
Mr. Wood criticized Dr. Anne Zink as an “ an unelected Oracle in a yurt," whatever that is supposed to mean. He ignores the facts that Dr. Zink and Dr. Anthony Fauci are both very well-respected physicians with impressive credentials in public health. He asserted they created a “fictional storyline,” but presented no evidence for this assertion, nor gave any hint of what their motivation would be to falsify the facts. This sounds like President Donald Trump’s early claim that the pandemic was a Democratic hoax.
Is it reasonable for anyone to believe that the Centers for Disease Control and public health experts and officials and John Hopkins information officials and people in other countries just made up reports of deaths and cases of COVID-19?
Why did Mr. Wood assert there is “mounting evidence the pandemic is not as deadly as advertised?"
“Advertised” is a strange word to describe predictions of death. If the number of actual deaths is less than the number predicted, that is a good thing and reflects the effects of self quarantines and social distancing. It is obviously not evidence that the earlier predictions of death created a fictional storyline.
Joanne Kell
Anchorage
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