Guest column

Opinion: Coping with COVID shouldn’t be political

The virus doesn’t respect people or parties

By , Guest Columnist Updated: September 08, 2020 6:02 AM CT | Published: September 08, 2020 4:00 AM CT
Robert Lee Long
Guest Columnist

Robert Lee Long

Robert Lee Long is a retired newspaper editor and a contributing columnist for The Daily Memphian. He is also a historian and theologian and formerly served as a radio correspondent for Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

The coronavirus doesn’t care whether you are a Democrat, independent or Republican. So far, more than six million people have contracted the virus and more than 187,000 in the U.S. alone have died from the disease.

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