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CURLEY: No shortage of community ‘health experts’

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My reading the Opinion page(s) in the recent Sun City West Independent has awakened this sleeping old dog.

The “stay at home” order was late in being enacted and with no clear definition. Gregg Gonsalves, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale school of public health, said Gov. Doug Ducey’s approach was inconsistent with mainstream public health guidance. “There’s no virtue in waiting,” Gonsalves said. “Social distancing and business closures are meant to be a preventative. They’re not to be seen as something you do when it gets really bad — it’s to keep it from getting really bad.”

We have more recently been entertained by a number of residents who have become instant infectious disease specialists who suddenly came out with a self granted degree in that specialty, They then ally it with their innate ability and right to cast verbal aspersions on those who, in reality, studied and were granted actual degrees in those specialties.

Mr. Bagnato, I noted with interest your comment (“Stand firm on original position,” Sun City West Independent, May 13, 2020) a named writer “…had to resort to a not-so-thinly-disguised personal insult in her letter,” whereas you express condescending comments, vis-a’-vis “…closures of our outdoor activities were knee-jerk reactions by an inexperienced management team…” although closures were state mandated and instructions from our attorneys, the “…Manager Bill Schwind continues to justify his ridiculously misguided shutdown by offering up another self-congratulatory press release…”

Mr. Bagnato, you have a common thread weaving through your comments — first a statement about an individual’s comment(s) or actions, then an expression of your hurt feelings and then further on your expression of bullying condescending comments about that individual and others.

Carry on, interesting you have not gained a seat on the board where you possibly could affect positive change.

Bill Curley

Sun City West