Stop Covid! Buy QPL A Sanitary Water Cooler
Emergency! After witnessing people suffering while at Quitman Public Library given the water fountain was off limits due to covid, I submitted a proposal to Mayor Steve Watkins to buy a sanitary water cooler. This was done because QPL started letting people use the water fountain which is very risky with covid on the rise.
The mayor told me the same thing QPL told me, "It is not in the budget." Huh? What? This is an emergency. A sanitary stainless steel water cooler made by Frigidaire would only cost about $200.00, including caps, and reusable bottle. Is not saving lives worth $200.00?
Covid kills. No amount of wiping down a water fountain is going to protect against the new varieties of BA covid that is now on the rise in Mississippi. Quitman is not immune to covid. BA covid is extremely contagious and wiping down a water fountain will not stop covid.
In the last week three people people that I have encountered admitted to having recently had covid. I am not going to drink water out of a public access fountain. No one else who has any common sense should drink out of a public access water fountain during the covid pandemic even if they have been fully vaccinated.
Many senior citizens and children visit QPL. Both are at risk of covid infection if they drink out of a public access water fountain. Do you want to kill people because there is no money in the budget to buy a sanitary water cooler.
Certainly QPL and the City of Quitman should realize this is an emergency. People can have a sun stroke if they get dehydrated. People can die if they get covid by drinking from a public access water fountain.
If nothing else, pass the hat. It would only take ten people donating $20.00 to buy a sanitary water cooler. There is no time to delay. This should be done immediately.
I do not care what excuses QPL and/or the City of Quitman gives. Wake up! Think out of the box. Just do it! Get the $200.00 to buy a sanitary water cooler for QPL. Make this a priority.
People's lives are at stake. Covid kills! Already over one-million Americans have been killed by covid. I put a crucifix in my front yard in memory of the one-million plus Americans killed by covid.
Nothing is more important than life itself. Please help. Go by QPL and tell them you want to donate money for a sanitary water cooler to STOP COVID.
Please understand my peers have shuned me hollering "Geek! Nerd! Genius! Outside agitator!" Yet too I see and know and understand God and the teachings of Jesus Christ who would not tolerate the money changers in the temple.
Likewise when I see fools of folly failing to respond and act for human or animal welfare, I do not hesitate to speak my mind , especially when this may save a life, one, two, a few or more.
Buying QPL a water cooler may save a life, one, two, three or more. All who cannot see this are blind. Or perhaps they fail to see the value of life in this heaven on earth and the function faith, hope, and love play in the preservation of that life.
I am a "genius" because I can see solutions in the blink of an eye. "Wizard, geek, nerd, genius," my peers shout out with hostility and bias to shun and shame me. I am not a fool. I know the reason why.
Get QPL a sanitary water cooler so no one will die. There is no reason why not to do this. There is no valid excuse. The BA varieties of covid are too contagious to delay.
Call me whatever you like. A "genius," a "trouble maker," an "outside agitator," whatever. But buy QPL a water cooler so that not one person will die of covid they caught drinking out of the virus infected water fountain at the library.
What I call myself is a good Samaritan. Because when I see a wrong that needs righted, when I see someone hurt or harmed, even a dog or other animal, I do not just walk by. Rather, I try to help. For that I get scorned. I would think a "thank you" would be more appropriate.
