Imagine if you will the Pittsburgh Steelers and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sending the offensive line onto the field against the Kansas City Chiefs without letting them wear helmets, their protective headgear. Pretty ridiculous, right?

The offensive line makes first contact with the opposition and is responsible for keeping Ben on his 39-year-old feet, instead of on his back, from vicious tackles.

No one in their right mind would do such a thing, but since Gov. Tom Wolf only uses his left mind, our 4,300 active and retired Pennsylvania state police are left without basic but vital protection from COVID-19.

In yet another mind-boggling decision, Wolf has deemed the state police as nonessential, at least when it comes to being deserving of that little shot in the arm that would provide them the same protection that he has been given. Makes you wonder about the security people around him, doesn't it?

The same as he allows, but then hides special treatment for things like his Carlisle car shows, there is little question that he made his own private list of those deserving to be in the first wave to be vaccinated, but again he disrespected law enforcement and just wished them well as he ran off to play politics with his friends. Through this year of pandemic issues, Gov. Wolf has time after time played favorites or used political bias instead of intelligence to make his bone-headed decisions, and this is his worst yet.

If he believes the virus is a risk and highly contagious, he would not be able to make such a poor decision unless it is politically motivated. So either he has determined in his mind that state police personnel are not at risk because the pandemic is over, or else he isn't worried what would or could happen without those brave men and women stepping up to defend the state and even his badly crafted positions.

His lack of good decision-making rivals that of his hero, Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York. Fortunately, for Pennsylvania, he has to go at the end of his term. Hopefully, we won't lose many or any of our state police while we long for that day that he is part of history instead of observing his daily follies.

— RV