Denying science of vaccines can be deadly

Getting vaccinated is not your right, it’s a choice. Maybe you don’t care about others, including your own friends and family, but it’s not your right to infect me. I mean, even Trump got vaccinated.

We have been vaccinating successfully for 20 some viruses, starting with smallpox, and now covid-19, since 1796 but now we have, for political, religious, and just plain ignorant reasons, some that won’t get vaccinated. Well, we’ll see how well your reasoning holds up when a deadly new variant of covid appears, as scientist fear. If there is one thing for certain, the virus that is covid-19, will mutate as it has with the delta variant, and eventually it could be a variant that kills rapidly.

It is positively unthinkable and unbelievable that modern day Republicans, especially, deny the science that has saved millions of lives. The Republican Party is marching back to the stone age. Denial of science, denial of voting rights or opportunities, denial of what they see going on all around themselves. What was the Grand Old Party has become the party of no, the party of denial, and possibly the party of the death of democracy.

We can only hope that enough Americans will, in time, realize how badly they have and are being misled, again, by the king of liars in Donald J. Trump and company.

Don Curtis

Stanwood

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