Strokes from Other Pens

Letter to the Editor,

Some of you I know won’t agree with me however I’m not responsible to protect others who won’t protect themselves or others. A COVID card, not a mask, is my defense. Some 90 percent of recent hospitalizations ion Colorado and elsewhere are non-vaccinated people. 9News reported 57 percent of Coloradoans are now fully vaccinated — good for them, me included!

I believe all health care workers, teachers, business management, office personnel, service industry, stores, public gatherings, first responders and anyone who encounters the multitudes needs to be vaccinated, period! This misguided, distorted narrative of complacency to assert one’s personal rebellious freedom fails, because the mandatory common good of our society requires rules. Like car insurance and seat belt use, the COVID-19 vaccines, booster shots are required for public safety. As before smallpox, polio, tetanus, shingles, antibiotics, pneumococcal, hepatitis and flu shows, the Pfizer, Moderna and J&J eventually will end this pandemic.

The vaccines initially begun by Trump’s Operation Warp Speed must be a required priority for adults and kids everywhere, not the masks unless they’re not vaccinated. Why is this complicated?

And some argue the vaccines don’t work. I know at least three in town to whom the virus did its work.

Sorry,

Chris Daley,

Haxtun