Forget about politics

Re: “Vaccine U-Turn”, (PostBag, Oct 16).

I found Mr Ban’s criticism of the letter to be a reaction to Mr Atkinson’s politics, rather than to his facts.

The writer claims that the data Mr Atkinson published — which among other things showed American Covid infections were up 300% over a previously unvaccinated period of time — is “misleading”.

Well, why has the writer not also called Joe Biden misleading? The Biden administration said the same thing, as did CBS. So, why are claims like those misleading when Mr Atkinson publishes them, but not misleading when the Biden administration or CBS publishes them?

These vaccines have issues. Nobody knows the long-term mortality rate and we’re still learning about the problems this new medical technology has, so we’re not helping ourselves if our approval of information is only based on our political view of the person who delivers the message.

JASON A JELLISON