Sound Off for April 2, 2020

Good decision

Thank you Mayor Hewes for coming forward and doing what is best for the citizens of the Gulfport. I believe Moss Point was first in line. Thank you both . Hopefully the remaining politicians will follow your leadership path. We can only pray.

Voting tip

Whoever wrote to Sound Off noting that the World Health Organization is dealing with us like a third-world country hit the nail on the head. We are a third-world country now. We are not the first in anything anymore. Big businesses profit from keeping things the way they are. We have big oil, big pharma, big insurance, big factory farms, big technology and big chemical companies. Any changes that are good for the people will threaten the obscene profits of all of these big companies. How can we regular people change this? In November, vote for a presidential candidate that has not taken campaign money from corporations.

Traffic issues

With so few cars on the road in Bay St. Louis, you would think it would be safe. Think again. Taking short walks and rides lately has been dangerous. Over 95 percent of the cars are really breaking traffic laws: running red lights, running stop signs and driving the wrong way on one-way streets. The only thing I have not seen in the last three days is a police car.

Astute observation

I can’t be the only person to notice that the Gulfport school teacher and his students are making masks, but not wearing them, while standing only a couple of feet apart.

Who paid?

I agree with the previous post about the need for more information about the trip Gov. Tate Reeves and his family took to Spain. I would like to know who paid for that trip, Reeves or the citizens? This taxpayer wants to know.

Send them home

Someone really needs to re-think the definition of an “essential” business. For instance, with electronic and internet banking and ATMs, banks should no longer be on this list. If they should remain on the list, not every employee of these financial institutions should be considered “essential.” Do the right thing and send people with the capability to work from home, home. If they are not on the front-line, send them home. Ego and defiance is becoming a problematic part of this pandemic.

This story was originally published April 1, 2020 at 10:43 AM with the headline "Sound Off for April 2, 2020."