We need a some painless conversation about spacial distancing in the “clamp” — or is it “stomp”? — down of the personal right to exercise common sense? Wasn’t it Thomas Paine who noted the need for Common Sense when Britain applied distancing logic that led to the American Revolution?

Many would-be Arnold Palmers are wondering why they can not go for a walk on property that they have personal and financial interest in. Does it take the linguistic talent of Shakespeare to get some attention in the public’s eye?

As an example, I offer the comparison of the size of a golf course to that of a glorified walking path. A shutdown golf course, give or take a few thousand square yards, has approximately 300,000 square yards on which to practice social distancing, as compared to maybe 15,000 square yards of the Pitt-Bradford trail. It appears that there is less fear of the Wolf on the path than there is on the less than “fair”ways of the Piney Acres.

Many have practiced the art of social distancing by entering traps of sand, bogs of streams and hugging of trees before reaching the patch of mossy carpet on which to putter.

A simple application of common sense is the comparison of these two areas.

On each, we can exercise our right to daily, healthful exercise called walking. Yet, members/owners of Pine Acres golf course are prohibited from entering and/or walking by the spiked boot of state government, rather than the spiked’ golf shoe of membership?

Yes, as a would-be Shakespeare might say, the real question is not, “to be or not to be,” but it is “to putt or not to putt.” Yes, that is the essential question.

‘Tis it more neurotic to cry Wolf or “FORE,” lest we fear the slings and arrows from the corona sphere? Yes, can we not talk about the “fairness” of crying “FORE” when a warning is to be issued rather than WOLF?

Jay Scott Parisella, Bradford