Dear Editor:
RE: Protestors from Toronto stand with Arthur gym defying lockdown rules, Jan. 7.
I was appalled when I saw the picture of the Toronto protesters in the parking lot of Futuristic Fitness. How dare they come into our community during lockdown and without the decency to wear masks. By looking at the picture they weren’t even protesting, but just milling around drinking coffee and yakking while not standing six feet apart.
They came from a COVID-19 hot spot to our relatively quiet community with zero regard to the health and safety of Arthur’s citizens! If they thought they were helping Futuristic Fitness they are wrong. All they accomplished was to show their ignorance, conceit and total disregard for anyone but themselves.
They should have been escorted out of town promptly and arrested if they refused to leave. I certainly hope each and everyone of them received a summons at the least.
After all, Futuristic Fitness received a summons and they at least followed some of the COVID-19 protocols, where these people honoured none.
It would be shear hypocrisy to let them off scot free!
Lesley Morris,
Arthur