Parents, stand down

In her “Parents wake up” letter (Oct. 31) Colleen Britton of Vacaville paints a rosy picture of Christian militants dominating the regional school board meeting.

Turning this public gathering on 7 October into a subsuper spreader event for COVID-19, the hospitalizations and deaths she cheered on should be arriving this month. Braying, praying and spraying respiratory aerosols, armed with the latest dubious facts, Britton gives their frustrations voice.

Keeping their children “safe from vaccine mandates ... is a hill they are willing to die on.” Charming.

She never mentions Jesus or Christianity, but we all know why she found silent prayer as “perfunctory” and “a real prayer” to be so beautiful.

She never mentions her own children, and one wonders if she has any real skin in this game or is just there for the culture wars.

Someone needs to convince the pious-gullible that a pestilence that has killed 5 million around the world is less dangerous to their kids than the vaccines saving us.

Also, that the freedom of religion guarantees the freedom to infect.

Remember the measles outbreak at Disneyland a few years back? Remember the Mill Valley moms being blamed for it (without evidence) because they refused the measles vaccine for their own children? Measles vaccines were blamed for causing autism, and those moms thought to let your kids take that vaccine risk to keep measles from ever reaching their kids.

The populace united in disapproval. Harsh vaccine mandates were written in Sacramento, to the relief of pediatricians. Moms complied, the measles fire was stamped out. No freedom-loving parents lined the sidewalks to pass out pamphlets, no police were needed at school board meetings. Where were the Christian freedom lovers of Vacaville when the wealthy Jews of Mill Valley had vaccine mandates laid upon them?

— Thom McCombs/American

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