Anti-vaxxers, read omicron writing on the wall
Regarding “Caution urged over variant” (Front Page, Nov. 29): The anti-vaxxers should read the “writing on the wall” before it becomes the writing on their tombstone. The most common side effect of not getting vaccinated is death — their own.
An accessory to murder is a person who willingly assists an offender (the virus) in the act of killing of a human being. The anti-vaxxers have willingly given their bodies over to the virus as human petri dishes (remember your high-school biology experiment). The virus is using their unvaccinated bodies to grow virus offspring that are vaccine resistant with the mission to kill human beings.
Curtis Panasuk, Santa Cruz
Better math, please
Letter writer Don Crockett blames Proposition 47 for the mass thefts at stores. Let’s do the math: At least 80 people stole over $200,000 worth of merchandise from the Walnut Creek Nordstrom. That comes to significantly more than $950 per person, so Proposition 47 doesn’t apply.
As for his contention that prosecutors are to blame because they “can’t be bothered to prosecute” thefts over $950, so far every thief who has been arrested has been charged with a felony.
It remains to be seen what the cause of this epidemic of smash-andgrab theft is, but the passage of the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” is unlikely to be the cause.
Judy Chadwick, Berkeley
Crime and punishment
Regarding the inaction of the police at the burglary of a cannabis dispensary: This lack of response needs to be fully investigated and remedied. Lack of proper policing increases the anxieties for safety of the community.
In addition, the lack of desire for vigorous prosecution puts more people who have exhibited criminal behavior loose on the streets with the knowledge that whatever they do will not be punished. The most recent smash-and-grab at our downtown stores is the logical extension of our lack of commitment to punish lawbreakers.
Art B. Wong, San Francisco
A dangerous game
I followed with interest your “local fellow makes good” stories about Najee Harris. He sounds like a very fine person.
But at the very end of the most recent piece, Harris is quoted as saying: “I black out a lot of times. I see someone is going to hit me, then it just goes dark and then I wake up.” Like that is just an expected aspect of the job! The Chron is overdue on an expose of this industry that fails to optimally protect its players from life-altering injury.
Louise Kimball, Berkeley
Traffic is a zoo
There is a very good reason why the Great Highway needs to be open every day: the SF Zoo. I recently visited on a holiday and the only way to get there is over Sloat. With so many people visiting, there was a big traffic jam both coming and going — a serious and unnecessary bottleneck.
If someone thinks taking a bus would be easier, the zoo is also one of the most difficult places in the city to access via public transportation.
Chad Krimmel, San Francisco
Saving a gem
I was heartened by your article regarding the Fox Theatre. It was astounding to me that they even dismantled it in 1963. I went to a concert there about 2006 and it was just an empty shell. Disturbing.
To know that many of the “pieces” have been located and can possibly be reassembled lifted my spirits. I would be one of the first to go to the “Movies on Market Street” again. Fingers crossed they can pull this off. Cynthia Cerletti, Benicia