Masks are a precaution
Here is a question. If you somehow got a doctor to sign you a mask exemption because you have asthma or breathing issues, what rights does that piece of paper provide? Can you go into places with mask mandates, uncovered, blowing off their rules? Why, if you have lung issues, would you even want to expose yourself to COVID this way in indoor public places without a mask?
COVID is a severe killer of those with weak lungs. You are making your illness a permission slip to expose yourself to COVID versus taking precautions by not exposing yourself unnecessarily. What if you have a low symptom case of COVID and don’t know it — do you feel it’s OK to expose 50 people to your unmasked breath? PS. The asthma society website recommends masks for all but severe cases, as a precaution against COVID.
Stan Chraminski
Kailua-Kona
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Mind your own body
Kudos to Tom Beach for a very succinct voice about abortion. It is amazing that many of the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, proclaiming the ownership of their bodies that are not to be interfered with, are often the same ones that want to tell other women what to do with their bodies. They demand that children should be born, no matter what. Of course, once that child is born they don’t care what happens, they don’t have to raise it. Rape, incest, poverty seem irrelevant. We have yet to hear one of them approach a woman with: “Have this child, I will take care of it for the rest of it’s 18 years.”
Why don’t they just mind their own bodies and their own religions and beliefs, and don’t try to impose their rules on others.
Christa Wagner
Kailua-Kona
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It happened a different way
Normally, I refrain from making comments on other people’s letters to the editor, but I felt compelled to write another person’s version of Roy Crytser’s letter “Hugo was Old Kona“ published Nov. 3 . Yes, Hugo was opinionated in his letters but it came from his heart and he truly was an “Old Kona Boy” you could count on.
The rivalry of the car on the roof of the restaurant was not between Hugo and Pat Dorian but rather Pat and Bob Beach (BB) who were friends in the restaurant business, first in Honolulu and then in Maui. BB came to Kona in the late 1960s and Pat in the early to mid 1970s They along with several others brought with them the private “No Non Sense Club” TWACBACTDAGRS, which is now disbanded.
To celebrate Pat’s birthday one year, BB arranged with Hugo, Kona Police, Hilton Hotel, and Hawaiian Telephone Company to have Pat’s Jeep Wagoner placed on the roof of Huggo’s Restaurant in the middle of the night before the birthday celebration. To complete the story would take too long to explain and would exceed the 300 word limit .
Doc Halliday
Kailua-Kona
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