Protesters don’t understand real danger COVID presents

Re Dozens of protesters target Toronto hospital to protest vaccine mandates after ‘silent vigil’ in Queen’s Park, Sept. 13

Reading about the anti-vaxxers protesting outside the Toronto General Hospital and Queen’s Park leads me to wonder : If they believe they should have the right to fly on an airplane, go to a restaurant or even go to hospital, then do I have the right to ask a nurse before tending to me if they have been vaccinated or to ask a police officer stopping me at a random check, if they have been vaccinated?

I contracted COVID-19 this past spring, as did my wife. I can tell everyone that without a doubt, COVID is real. I lost my wife to this awful virus after she spent five weeks in ICU; I survived but was quite ill for two-to-three weeks.

Protesters at Queen’s Park included nurses, police officers and firefighters. After what I have been through, I don’t want any of them anywhere near me.

Len Mills, Scarborough