Dear Editor:

There comes a time when we as a people have to examine events that have taken place and take stock of the facts that have driven decisions that have been made for us as a people.

Here are the hard and fast numbers of the Maine Centers for Decease control for the past year:

Average number of people who die every year in the state of Maine, 15,000.

Number of COVID-19 positive tested people in the state this past year, 46,856. They admit that the number is probably much higher. (as of March 15, 2021)

Total number of deaths from suspected COVID-19, 724 for the year; age less than 20, 0 deaths; people in their 30s, one death, and people in their 40s, 10 deaths, people in their 50s, 31 deaths, people in their 60s, 63 deaths, People in their 70s, 192 deaths, and people in their 80+, 426 deaths.

It is not my intention to demean any of these deaths I know full well that each and everyone who has died have loved ones who desperately would want their loved ones back with them. I only want that the numbers be available to the public so that reasonable people can make rational decisions about what has taken place this past year. As you can see from the numbers for a population of some 1.3 million people in the state, this has not been the overwhelming crisis that the mainstream news, the federal and state governments have made it out to be. Thousands of Mainers have lost their jobs, businesses gone bankrupt, who knows what else are the results of the shutdowns? Suicides, drug abuse, spousal abuse, child abuse, loss of education, loss of freedom, loss of one’s purpose in life. This is the first time in human history that a healthy population has been locked down and treated as if everyone was infected.

Dale Page

Boothbay Harbor