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June 8, 2020 Dear Mayor, City, City Council Members, and Citizens of Yerington: I, Chris Garry, a citizen of Yerington, wish to address these chambers. I wish to thank all who have served us in this Corona health crisis whether they have been involved in the treatment, the mitigation or containment of this disease, or provided essential services. I wish to thank the citizens who have cooperated with the authorities to limit and contain the spread of the Coronavirus. I wish also to thank those who have offered alternative views on our approach to this crisis, those who have favored the quarantine, and those who have not, those who wish to mitigate human suffering and those who wish to continue it to save lives. For to quote a wise man, “We must love them both…those whose opinions we share and those who we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped in the finding of it.” Further, let us resolve to do better in the future, to have learned from this crisis, for as, George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat.” May our legacy be to have learned from it as well. Chris Garry Citizen of Yerington, Nevada