Letter: Gov. Herbert’s Hail Mary

Throwing a Hail Mary is an act of desperation, when, in the final seconds of a football game it’s the only possible way left to snatch victory out of the jaws of almost certain defeat. According to fascinating data provided by BYU’s Cougar Stats blog (“Hail Marys—Just How Improbable Are They?” Sept. 10, 2015), a Hail Mary is successful a meager 2.5% of the time.So one must wonder, when it came to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic two months ago, why our state&rsqu