Reader’s views: car tag woes + virus recovery
Good news
I see the “bad news” in papers every the day. What I do not see is a lot of GOOD news.
How about finding out how many people have had, and recovered from, COVID-19?
I do see on some of the COVID websites where you can manipulate the map to show these figures. I’ll bet it could be a ray of sunshine in these dark days.
Wendel Ruegsegger
Biloxi
No fees please
I want to know why arrangements have not been made for those of us with car tags due who normally pay in person with cash.
I do not wish to pay online with a credit card as Jackson County charges you an outrageous fee for using your credit card.
If whoever decided to close the drive through window at the Satellite Office on Washington Avenue hadn’t bricked it up, they would have had a way to take cash payments while still practicing social distancing.
It is not the taxpayers’ fault that the tax collectors office is closed due to COVID-19 and we should not be penalized for it. I have been trying to pay my car tags for the last two weeks and the office has been closed, and they can’t even tell you when they will reopen.
Surely like Lowe’s they could come up with a way to let a limited number of people inside so we can pay our car tags with cash as we normally do. At the very least they should not charge us a late fee since they are the ones that are closed with no way for us to pay with cash and outrageous fees if you use a credit card.
Anita Thompson
Ocean Springs
Relax the rules
When do we relax the lock down?
When should we relax our distancing rules and begin opening up? Too soon and the virus comes back too; late and our economy suffers.
Trump has given state governors power to decide. This is a step in the right direction.
A further step would be to give each county the right to decide - based on a set of rules.
Rule 1: No outbreaks in the last three weeks.
Rule 2.: No outbreaks in contiguous counties in the last two weeks. This way counties can open when nearby counties are clear. This will provide a county by county incentive to get clean and stay clean or be banned by their neighbors.
With 82 counties in the state we have 82 experiments going on at once and all can share best practices.
Bill Curtis
Ocean Springs
A different view
In a recent edition there was a letter that criticized the McClatchy political cartoons. Thank goodness for a free press.
Mr. Trump turned a blind eye on what his medical team was warning him about the virus in January.
He did nothing except make light of it.
In the meantime, we need to stay safe and informed.
Janet Parker
Diamondhead