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The letter from Renae Paisley two weeks ago gave me chills – not the good kind – but the responses from our community gave me faith in humankind.

Letter after letter admonished Paisley’s twisted view that we must put an end to social isolation and open up our streets and shops so we do not hurt our economy. I’m guessing that Paisley is a nom de plume for a person who self-identifies as an “entrepreneur” and thinks that a vibrant economy is more important than the lives of old farts like myself.

One of the big problems we have nowadays is that people choose to listen to o...