The greater danger

Dear Editor,

Forty-eight percent of my fellow Warren County residents bewilder me. They stubbornly resist total vaccination or vaccination at all, ignoring our medical professionals’ concentrated efforts to factually present the case for inoculation. (Our county 52% vaccination rate is below state average)

It appears they place their confidence in their bodies’ ability to withstand COVID on its own, or trust COVID will not reach their rural location. Despite the fact that our hospital is occupied at full capacity, that COVID patients are in crowded areas, and that nearly all the hospital COVID patients are not vaccinated.

Some vaccination-denying residents accept the non-scientific social media “experts” non-factual claims of “Deep State” conspiracies of DNA altering side effects, implantation of computer chips, etc. The conspiracies sell fear, danger, and distrust and a sizable minority are buying it.

The vast majority of these anti-vaccination believers are most likely within the eight of 10 county Trump voters. Yet it was Trump who pushed the vaccination development, was vaccinated, and eventually urged his rally attenders to get vaccinated, whereupon the rally attendees booed.

It appears the greater danger for the county vaccination deniers is personal harm via home invasion, mugging, and being over run by the illegal aliens from our southern border, none of which has happened, certainly not by illegal aliens. Yet gun sales are at record high, outpacing vaccination numbers.

Meanwhile county COVID related fatalities continue (180) and some mid- to long-term COVID effects are appearing.

It is the hypodermic needle, not the gun, that’s going to defeat the real danger.

Don Scott,

North Warren

Peace … and guns?

Dear Editor,

Let’s go Brandon. Call me naive, confused, maybe just plain dumb, but I don’t know what it means. I heard an explanation but it couldn’t possibly be true. I have seen flags, I have heard the words — both used by good God-fearing followers of Jesus. They wouldn’t say that. Would they?

I am more confused by these flags and banners: God, Guns, Country. Again flown by professed followers of Jesus. Guns? Jesus was a peacemaker. Jesus wanted us to spread the Gospel of peace to every people. Even the eunuch. The guy from Ethiopia.

I’ve read Jesus welcomed strangers with kindness and generosity, share what you have with those who have less. Wonder where that came from? Oh. I remember: They will know we are Christians by our love.

I recently read about an immigrant family that fled from their homeland. They were fleeing politically-ordered genocide. The authorities were killing kids. Actually only boys. This family had a boy. They were stopped at the border. But they got in. Into Egypt. The boy survived. For about 30 years. His name was Jesus. I read it in the Bible.

Wonder if anybody told Jesus to go back where he came from? Would you?

James Spangler, OD,

Warren