In the same edition of The Baltimore Sun that carried your editorial about local leaders making tough virus decisions when Gov. Larry Hogan won’t (”Local leaders make tough coronavirus decisions Maryland governor won’t,” July 24), you list the number of COVID-19 cases. If you look and review them, through this entire pandemic, Allegheny County has 256 cases, Calvert County has 535, Caroline County has 403 cases, Cecil County has 597 cases, Dorchester County has 317 cases, Garrett County has 42 cases, Kent County has 229 cases, Queen Anne’s County has 366 cases, St. Mary’s County has 834, Somerset County has 114 cases, Talbot County has 308 cases, Washington County has 871 cases and Worcester County has 500 cases.
This accounts for 13 counties in Maryland and it is beyond me why you would want to penalize those jurisdictions because some other jurisdictions are not doing well for numerous reasons. I think too much emphasis is put on bars and restaurants when there are swimming pools, hardware stores and various food stores and other areas where they are having lacrosse tournaments, etc.
It seems to me that a social tracking system would have more information, although I don’t know who they are tracking and what they do when they do the tracking —that data never seems to be available.
Melvin J. Kodenski, Baltimore
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