Vaccinations are a personal choice and should remain that way

Editor: Just the other day a gentleman submitted a letter decrying people who did not want the COVID vaccine. He evidently is fully vaccinated and refers to them as anti-vaxxers. That's an insulting term.

Probably most of these people have had many vaccines including MMR, polio, flu, Prevnar 13, etc. Maybe they just don't want to take an experimental vaccine that has not yet received FDA approval. I don't know and I don't blame them.

If you are fully vaccinated and the vaccine protects you, what's the problem? Shouldn't you be safe from other people, vaccinated or not? What about people who have religious objections?

I don't care whether you are vaccinated or not. Some people have natural immunity and don't need it. Besides, no one goes around anyone who is ailing or sick anyway unless they are tending to them. It's a personal choice and should stay that way.

Your health is a private matter between you and your doctor and no one else.

SONIA F, GLICK Lockeford

Government incentivizing people to stay home

Editor: An editorial cartoon in Tuesday’s News-Sentinel read “Help Desperately Wanted” while the state budget includes another “stimulus” of $600.

Is it any wonder why businesses go begging when the state pays people to stay home? This needs fixin’.

BILL BELFORTE Lodi

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