We will be back
and we will be hungry
I am not a bad cook. Home cooking was good for a few days. Now, I really miss Kona restaurants.
Poke towers, kalbi ribs, incredible seafood, spicy sizzling shrimp, SSS duck, tacos, barbecue, I can’t take it anymore. If this virus ever blows over our island, I will splurge on all of these places.
Be prepared, we will be back. We will be hungry.
Gordon Petersen
Holualoa
Are we prepared?
Hawaii’s hospitals are mobilizing in case there’s a spike in demand to care for virus sufferes. But, are there neo-natal units ready for what doubtless will be a spike of new residents, starting nine months from now?
Health clubs are closed for obvious reasons. But … when this ends, after we’ve been home sitting on our lazy butts getting fat, will they be ready with enough machines?
The only fit people will be swimmers and surfers; they are exempt from the governor’s stay-at-home order.
Niel Thomas
Waimea
A frightening bit
of nonsense
President Donald J. Trump has recently expressed his view that the emergency around the coronavirus will be over by approximately Easter, and that at that time the country should revert to normal social and business operations, attending church services, for instance, on Easter Sunday.
In light of scientific opinion, e.g., from Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the spread of the virus cannot be depended on to follow an arbitrary timeline, this view of Trump is a frightening bit of nonsense. In light of the president’s inadequacy to coordinate an acceptable national response to the coronavirus crisis, ideally one or more of our independent-minded state governors should arrange for a periodic press conference, similar to the one now headed by the president, that had a central spokesperson different from Trump.
This press conference should include a supporting group of willing scientists and medical people as contributors, perhaps similar to the current group. The president is simply mentally and emotionally not fit to be the chief national spokesperson at this critical time. Ideally, the factually minded media networks would switch their focus to this replacement press conference and ignore the one with the president at the center. There’s an ideal, perhaps pie-in-the-sky, solution to the present nonsense.
Mike Keller
Kailua-Kona
