Dear Editor
It is refreshing to see our doctors chiding our posturing politicians and handwringing Chamber of Commerce types with regards to the actions we have taken so far to combat COVID-19. I hope I live long enough that all the backroom SCN Lavilin-type deals for the vaccine are public knowledge .Would the second wave have been as bad if we had all paid attention in fifth grade health class?
Awhile ago the good Dr. Wood suggested I recycle my bicycle into a firearm with a bore suitable for strolling with wild boar (and the bear and moose that regularly cross my garden?). Africans living in repressive regimes that find too many elephants in their mealie patches, recycle Land Rover tie rods (steering parts) and use Timothy McVeigh鈥檚 recipe. I鈥檝e often wondered if mud brick projectiles from a trebuchet would be a viable non-lethal method of discouraging the corn chomping and people stomping critters.
Sorry, I can鈥檛 entertain with a redundancy of puns like the erudite Mr. Wood, but perhaps more usquebaugh would fuel my autism level to that of the trust-fund babies who are making the decisions in this country. Or maybe our legislators could be convinced to read Malcolm Gladwell鈥檚 鈥淭ipping Point鈥� before they read Niccole Machiavelli鈥檚 鈥淭he Prince.鈥�
Tom Lamont
Maidstone
