Vaccines, masks are right thing to do for all of us

As covid-19’s delta variant ravages the U.S. Deep South, where hospitals and ICUs are at capacity with coronavirus patients, inexplicably we have people right here in Snohomish County protesting mask and vaccine mandates (“Amid surging cases, nurses and others protest vax mandates,” The Herald, Aug. 13).

I’m fully vaccinated, I comply with mask mandates, and I wash or sanitize my hands without even thinking about it; much like I put on my seat belt, turn on my headlights at night, watch my following distance and use my turn signals, all without once manufacturing some outlandish indignity like how much of an infringement my my personal liberties these actions are. Why? Because not to do so threatens the lives of others. My “liberties” are subordinate to the greater good.

That isn’t red or blue, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. It’s the right thing to do.

We’re all in this together, America, like it or not.

Andrew Dockhorn

Everett