Editor:
I am very grateful for your Nov. 20 editorial on COVID numbers on the Sunshine Coast (“Good news for dreadful times”).
From the start of the pandemic, last March, and the concomitant establishment of our Sunshine Coast COVID Physician Task Force, I have found the tone from our task force, and yet the apparent lack of high COVID infection numbers on the Coast, confusing. It has also been alarming, since it has seemed that I must be missing something.
Absorbing the information from our task force, it seemed there was disconnect. However, as is evident from the editorial on the 20th, the lack of connection between the medical data and the message given to the public was exactly that. Our physician task force painted a more negative image of COVID in our community than was actually the situation.
Certainly our situation can change. It is apparent that COVID can move quickly. We need to do everything we can, in the most thoughtful, careful ways, to block the spread of the virus.
I am sincerely grateful and appreciative of the willingness of our local doctors to be a COVID task force for our community.
We all want our community to be safe.
That safety is best encouraged when we know, as accurately as possible, “the facts.”
Julie Gleadow, Roberts Creek
