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LETTER: New Neon section is a winner
Bruce A. Kesselman Las Vegas
December 9, 2020 - 9:00 pm
 
Updated December 9, 2020 - 9:14 pm

In October, the Review-Journal published my letter pointing out that deaths from COVID as a percentage of confirmed cases had declined to 1.8 percent. Your Friday headline was “Death toll rising.” Yet the percentage of deaths due to COVID had further declined to 1.4 percent (159,532 confirmed cases/2,249 deaths). Why isn’t the decline in deaths a factor to be considered by the governor in his decision-making about pauses and shutdowns?

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Michael X. Smith Las Vegas

Thank you so much for restoring the Neon entertainment section to its formal fullness.

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Laurel Paul Kingman, Arizona

Trump thinks winning the election means doing whatever he wants. He and the GOP are purposely exacerbating this, like he always does.

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Phil Winter Henderson

Will the United States fall into a totalitarian government that exerts total control, or be a representative democracy that listens to the voices of “we, the people”?

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