I watched in disgust Saturday while hundreds of trucks and cars blasted horns through our neighborhoods in an arrogant display of selfishness and absence of compassion for our fellow human beings.
Mandates would not be necessary if people acted responsibility. Speed limits would not be necessary either, but you know how that goes.
My son is in the hospital in Washington state due to COVID. Although vaccinated and boosted his health was compromised due to injuries suffered serving our country in Iraq. He is recovering.
My oldest brother is dying of COVID in a hospital in California. He will not make it. He too was vaccinated and boosted. His health was compromised from partial paralysis from motorcycle accident 40 years ago.
Unvaccinated people shed higher amounts of COVID, unmasked people spread the disease randomly. We will never know with any certainty how many of the over 900,000 Americans are dead due to infection by unvaccinated, unmasked and asymptomatic people. What we do know with certainty is that the number is not zero.
Just like the protections under civil rights, masks and vaccines are to protect everyone, the weak and the strong. Nothing works 100 % of the time for everyone, but our shared humanity dictates we all must try.
For all of you people bravely “standing up for my rights”; you have blood on your hands.
Guy Archibald,
Juneau
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