Glens Falls speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Aug. 13, 2021 – Glens Falls Post-Star

Lets look at all the facts we know

I respectfully turn down the crown of Miss Information that a reader wanted to bestow upon me. I apparently made the horrific mistake of saying that one officer was killed on Jan.6. So, let me add a correction. Mr. Sicknick died of a stroke. What the reader failed to add to his statement was, The medical examiner noted Sicknick was among the officers who engaged the mob and said, all that transpired played a role in his condition.

The fake news, as the writer put it, reported he was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher. The POLICE initially believed Sicknick had been struck with a fire extinguisher and so reported it as such. Apparently the letter-writer doesnt really watch the news because he claims that the fake news forgot to mention Ashli Babitt, when in actuality it was reported on every major news organization in the country.

The bottom line is, if Trump supporters had not carried out the attack on the Capitol, Ashli Babitt and Officer Sicknick would probably be alive today. The writer also thinks news sources cherry-pick Republicans for evisceration. Not at all.

They report the news as always, its just that the Republicans are making such incredibly outrageous and ignorant decisions that it is all newsworthy. Fox News, Breitbart, and other propaganda agencies only report fake news, not actual news. So, thanks for offering me a crown, but seriously, it truly belongs to you, Mr. Misinformation.

Were in trouble from this virus

If people dont start taking this virus seriously, than it wont matter if Republicans or Democrats run our country.

This virus has me more worried than Trump or Cuomo ever will.

I am fully vaccinated but choose to wear a mask, whether Im told to or not. I know people look at me kind of funny, but I dont give a hoot.

It is very disheartening to see every days news, with the surge of new variants. It feels like, with all the fires, the violence and the resurging of the virus, we are being tested and failing.

I want our world, our country and all of us to survive.

I pray to our merciful God each day to help us, but all have to pull together to achieve it. I hope we can, for humanitys sake.

Tillie Merrill, Glens Falls

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