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Reopening schools early
could prove disastrous
It’s not surprising that parents and teachers are concerned about the reopening of California schools. With recent pandemic surges opening schools early could prove disastrous for teachers, parents and elderly relatives of students.
A partial solution is to delay opening. The longer we experience this pandemic the better we learn how to deal with it. Opening schools in mid-August makes no sense.
Traditionally schools opened after Labor Day. Let’s make that a first step for the 2020-20/21 school year.
James Thurber
Mountain View
Fugitive’s inclusion on mural
blunts racial justice message
When I was growing up there was a saying: two wrongs don’t make a right.
Glorifying a police murderer does not make the case for black lives stronger (“Group demands removal of image depicting fugitive,” July 10). In fact, it does the opposite; it promotes a stereotype that black people murder. Not exactly the way forward.
Whether it is a police officer abusing his or her badge or a civilian seeking to right a wrong by attacking a police officer both these actions can only create distrust. Palo Alto Mayor Adrian Fine should support removing the mural of Assata Shakur.
Glenn Stansbury
San Jose
Willow Glen residents,
please wear your masks
Hey, Willow Glen, where are the masks?
My wife and I walk in the Willow Glen area near Lincoln Avenue a few times a week. We both wear our masks. On the other hand, people walking, jogging, riding bikes, pushing strollers are not using masks.
Protect yourselves and protect us. It’s also a matter of respect for the community. It takes five seconds to put on a mask and five seconds to take it off. Wear the masks. Please.
Larry and Florina Gallegos
San Jose
Is current surge a sign we
really are in a pandemic?
What if the current “surge” in COVID-19 positive cases in the United States is not an indication of a spike in infection rates, but a sign that we really are living in a pandemic?
Perhaps the lack of testing February-May kept the initial numbers artificially low and only now are we fully understanding how widespread COVID-19 is. We can’t flatten the curve when we never fully understood the crest of the wave to begin with. Maybe 60,000 new positive COVID-19 cases a day is flattening the curve. Yikes.
On many levels, a “don’t test, don’t tell” policy, is a negligent approach to a global pandemic from a world leader like the United States.
Dave Larson
Mountain View
