Letters: Penn State COVID-19 death tragic, not ‘unthinkable’; Demanding officers’ names is ‘cruel,’ unproductive

Penn State COVID-19 death tragic, not ‘unthinkable’

Penn State’s Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims calls the death of student Juan Garcia from COVID-19 causes an “unthinkable loss.”

Really? Unthinkable? That is an interesting adjectival choice.

I’ll accept that perhaps Mr. Sims couldn’t think of which specific Penn State student was going to be the first to die from COVID-19. However, I would postulate that If one takes into account the virological factors of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2, the demographic and behavioral factors of the students, staff and faculty, as well as the actual actions taken by Penn State University, and then mixes those with a bit of basic statistics, it would be very easy to predict the death of a (some) student from COVID-19.

I hope I am wrong, but I think there will be more Penn State deaths from COVID-19.

I am by no means belittling the loss of this individual. His death is a tragedy of epic and likely incomprehensible loss to his family and friends. I mourn his death and the loss of what might have been.

If the official Penn State position is that this student’s death truly was “unthinkable,” it is clear to me that Penn State’s leadership needs to be replaced, en masse, by better thinkers.

Demanding officers’ names is ‘cruel,’ unproductive

I am very disappointed that the 3/20 Coalition continually requests the names of officers involved in the tragic Osagie shooting. It is cruel and not productive for the police department and their families. The tragedy is past and the officers have to live with the knowledge that they killed someone the remainder of their lives. That is a tough punishment when they were only doing their duty when called to help in a mental health situation. The 3/20 Coalition could do better than spend their time focusing on their ten demands. Nothing is gained by constantly bringing up a tragedy that happened last year and was thoroughly investigated. Have they ever thought what they would do if faced with an out of control man with mental issues coming at them with a knife when another officer’s Taser failed? It was a tragedy for all concerned but the Coalition, the council and the police department and mental health professionals must work on procedures and protocol to prevent it from ever happening again.

Trump’s pro-Putin policies leave a bad taste

Stunning allegations in U.S. intelligence reports say that Putin’s murderous Russian poison operatives have offered to pay the Taliban bounty to kill our American service people.

By Russia’s “poison operatives” I mean Putin’s assassin squad that used deadly nerve toxins to kill innocent people in Britain.

President Trump was apparently briefed on the reports that Russia is offering bounty for American lives back in March.

Trump’s response was worse than nothing.

Trump totally failed to hold Russia to account for offering bounty for American lives.

Trump also failed to share this information with America.

Instead Trump proposed to reward Russia by bring Putin into the G7 international body.

Trump has also proposed to remove thousands of American NATO military personnel from Germany.

Putin must be crowing with joy.

Trump spends his time issuing false, racist, divisive, self-serving and vitriolic tweets deepening divides in America while giving Russia a complete pass for direct threats against our soldiers in Afghanistan.

How much more of Trump can patriotic Americans stand?

Please vote in the November election. If you cannot vote for a Democrat at least do not vote to re-elect Trump.

Trump’s pro-Putin policies leave a very bad taste.

Is this Trump’s idea of “Making America great”?