You’re wrong about Dr. Fauci

The manner in which your editorial reported about Dr. Fauci was disgraceful. I thought partisan political reporting was bad enough; everyone has the right to support whomever they choose, that’s politics.

However, when the world is experiencing the most horrific pandemic in our lives and fauci your newspaper chooses to throw Dr. Fauci under the bus is the ultimate disgrace. Clearly, people who choose to invalidate Dr. Fauci’s predictions and recommendations have no idea how the medical field works. Having lived through many very serious medical issues in my family, I have learned that no doctor will have all the answers nor guarantee that all will be perfect. As illnesses progress, recommendations for treatment change. Doctors are human beings, they are not God.

Dr. Fauci is not the person responsible for the divisions in our country, the blame for that lies with the man we “call” president. Donald Trump is the person responsible for the lack of trust in our medical professionals as he has continuously contradicted and downplayed what the doctors have told us. For this, your newspaper owes a huge apology to all the hardworking medical professionals, in particular Dr. Fauci.

— Marie Connors

Leominster

Climate change is real

Sheer ignorance came to mind when I read “No Joe, we’re not in a climate crisis” (Dec. 26). With an extra helping of hubris, Lowry mocks the idea that a few degrees of global warming is a threat to civilization. And he cites the writings of not-a-climate-scientist Bjorn Lomborg as proof. But the reason President-elect Biden and almost every other world leader are ringing the alarm bell is that 3 degrees of warming will be catastrophic.

And recent studies suggest we’re on track to do just that. We’ve crossed the threshold of 1C of warming, which has already caused changes in weather patterns and ocean currents — a proverbial game of “52

Card Pickup” with the earth’s climate systems.

In a Rip Van Winkle moment, Lowry fantastically declares that global warming has had no adverse effects on human populations. The growing list of humanitarian and property disasters is long and easy to find. But Lowry got one thing right — global warming is occurring as a result of human activity. But rather than stopping carbon pollution, which is causing the damage in the first place, his remedy is adaptation with more air conditioners and sea walls. I’ll bet the fossil-fuel industry agrees with that approach.

— Kerry Castonguay

Leominster