During World War II, my grandmother lived about eight miles west of Boston. In the 1960s she still had one of the original blackout curtains in the kitchen. She pointed out that the edges of the curtain extended about two or three inches over the trim boards around the window. That was so that not even a smidgeon of light would leak out. People were afraid that if German bombers flew over the Boston area, and saw light from houses below, they would say, “Oh, that must be a town, let’s bomb it.”
And everyone cooperated in this endeavor, to make everyone safer. Can you imagine anyone saying, “Well, I want to express my freedom to light up the night sky, so I won’t use curtains”?
That seems to be the way that Al Baldasaro is acting when he goes to Florida and does not quarantine when he gets back. Then, when he was asked to use a mask at the State House, he insults people by putting on a face shield. I don’t think that he is stupid. He knows just what he is doing. He is saying that he does not care one whit about the commonweal.
People like that are not helpful as “representatives” in the State House.
ROBERT B. WILLIAMS Jr.
Chichester