By RICHARD BONNER
Concerned Citizen

We are visiting Los Alamos while full-time living in our motorhome and responsibly “social distancing” as we travel.

While camped at the White Rock Visitor Center last evening, we drove to see the town of Los Alamos and around the Highway 501 to State Road 4 loop through Bandelier Monument and back to White Rock.

Doing so required us to drive through a security check point on the west side of Los Alamos. How ironic and disturbing that one of our country’s preeminent science laboratories requires users of a public road to come face to face with a young security guard with no face mask or barrier, hand over identification, and converse face to face!

While this security post is undoubtedly run by the federal government, which can legally ignore state law and do whatever asinine thing they choose, it is still beyond careless and stupid, a violation of responsible state law, a horrifically ironic lapse in judgement as well as in public relations for a preeminent scientific facility to act in such a way.

One hopes that the researchers who work there do not have to endure this same procedure, or it is entirely possible that the entire lab could be shut down with a COVID-19 outbreak sooner or later!