Op/Ed
Letter to the editor: Lowering the flag might help
November 19, 2020
A modest pandemic proposal: Governor Scott, and other governors, might issue an order to lower all flags to half-staff for the duration of the pandemic to 1. commemorate the dead and 2. remind the living of our public health responsibilities to ourselves, our families, our communities, our nation and our world.
Jack Mayer, MD, MPH
Middlebury
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