Bookmobile delivers value to community

I would like to make a brief response to the letter from Chris Anderson concerning the library board in Bonner County.

Chris claims that health guidelines concerning COVID are unsupported by science, which is another attempt at a very old and tired response to CDC’s COVID guidelines. It's way past time to even argue this, as the World Health Organization has just declared the COVID emergency is over. Evidently, Chris's education in the health sciences is better than that of the 12,000 people with advanced degrees working at the CDC, which is quite an accomplishment. Every country, every hospital, and every public health agency on earth disagrees with his statement.

Face it folks: once upon a time in the distant past, Donald Trump said COVID was a hoax, and, for people like Chris, it will always be that way, despite the fact 1.1 million Americans are dead from COVID. Much better (and easier) to keep repeating the same old lies than educate yourself about the realities of the pandemic.

As far as the bookmobile being a waste of money, the cost of its purchase over 10 years of use will be 50 cents per person per year for 10 years of use for the nearly 50,000 people living in the county. I don't think that is a crippling cost to those who benefit from the bookmobile. By comparison, the artwork for the Boyer Avenue roundabout was $113,000, and it benefits nobody.

Let's keep things in perspective.

DAN STRAYER

Bonners Ferry