Editorial cartoon undermines trust in vaccine

To the editor,

I find puzzling and disheartening a recent political cartoon in the Woolwich Observer.

In the March 25 issue of your paper, the cartoon indicated the dreadful results of taking two of our COVID-19 vaccines. Some people are already vaccine-hesitant, and could be easily convinced by this cartoon that they indeed will not get the vaccine. This flies in the face of what our health officials have been saying, that getting the vaccine is much safer that not getting it.

Eroding public trust when our government and health officials are doing everything they can to encourage people to get the vaccine is counterproductive.