Letters

While I appreciate and agree totally with your April 9 editorial regarding thanking and recognizing the people who have helped us through this crisis [“On The Front Lines”], I was surprised that you didn’t include all the supermarket and drugstore staff, and perhaps other critical storekeepers and staff, for keeping us stocked with the necessities of life. What would we do without our food and prescriptions and other sundries that we absolutely need to live from day to day?

And now that things have settled down, and the rush, and the hoarding, and the rules about limiting people going into the stores and what they can buy, have finally settled into a daily routine, these highly underpaid and unappreciated people need a giant round of applause from all of us.

I say good morning or good afternoon to each person I pass in a store (wearing my facemask and gloves and keeping a safe distance, of course), and thank them all for helping and always having a smile and being in great spirits and a calming influence on our behavior and everyone’s around us.

You should do the same.

Trina Sullivan

East Hampton