Letter: Iron County sheriff suppresses science

The Nov. 11 Tribune summary of the Iron County sheriff’s refusal to enforce Gov. Gary Herbert’s most recent mandates for COVID-19 virus containment should be the subject of the sheriff’s immediate dismissal. The “herd immunity” gambit favored by the sheriff, Ken Carpenter, amounts to collective suicide, given the utter lack of care, as well as disregard for science in general, favored by the medieval populace of too much of the American West.Science is a method, not