LETTERS

Letter: COVID facts, not falsehoods

The Herald-Times

Do you take your pet in distress to the local plumber? Do you talk to your child's English teacher about fixing the roof on your house? Probably not.

It is very sad that some people get their medical advice, not from medical professionals, but from politicians and highly paid entertainers who get financial gain from stoking controversy, not from sharing facts. It is comforting to me that there is a groundswell of support for holding professionals accountable for deliberately spreading falsehoods about the vaccine, masks, Jan 6, etc. We are seeing calls for these small numbers of errant lawyers to be disbarred, and doctors to have licenses revoked.

We have lost almost 700,000 American lives in the past year, from COVID, almost all non-vaccinated. Our wonderful scientific community has provided the tools to greatly reduce this tragedy from going forward (vaccines, masks). The spiking COVID infection, ICU admission and death trends, now seen in children and young adults, are happening because so many Americans resist these common sense measures. We had similar outcries of losing freedoms from the polio vaccine, seat belts in car, limits on smoking indoors, etc. Please pray for the residents of our country that we will work together.

Pete Lenzen, Bloomington