Still wary Hungry for HIPAA Class it up

Bay Shore, L.I.: I’m disheartened to see all this pressure to get this COVID vaccine. Something that they say takes eight years to develop is done in eight or nine months and they want you to put it into your body. No animal testing, which I also don’t approve of — but humans are being used as guinea pigs. Others have spoken to me about this so I know I’m not the only one. Sherice Dobson

Sold out

Brooklyn: To see a baseball game at the stadium, you need to have been vaccinated? How can we if normal, non-essential people aren’t eligible to receive the vaccine? If we are in our 20s, 30s or 40s, we won’t be allowed in. Totally unfair. Ramon Martinez

San Bernardino, Calif.: Any government attempt at creating any sort of vaccine registry compromises the privacy of medical records and is nothing more than an intrusion (“Coronavirus vaccine ‘passports’ could help flying resume,” March 18). There exists a perfectly good system of vaccine history currently in use in the form of the International Certificate of Vaccination, approved by the World Health Organization and recognized internationally.

This document carried with a passport has for years sufficed and should not be thrown aside. What you failed to report on was that not everyone carries a smartphone and not everyone uses apps, thus such a system would place a burden on those who do not. At 65, I care not to be connected. I have a good flip phone but not one that is able to use text or apps. There are also many in lower income brackets who should not be forced to spend on something that is not needed. Stewart D. Cumming

Marvelous send-off

Brooklyn: Boxing fans bow your heads and say a prayer, one of the greatest is no longer here! He stood and fought all who would dare toy with his Destruct and Destroy! RIP Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Jeff Kulikowski

Blauvelt, N.Y.: Hey, Daily Newsers, this from a fellow newspaperman: We all gotta give up the sexist language, especially in our feisty, streetwise tabloids. Your March 19 lede on strip clubs seeking to reopen (“Strip clubs: C’mon, Andy, we’re hangin’ on by G-string over here,”) was: “Four New York City jiggle joints...” and later in the piece, “the mammary meccas.” I know the lingo sells, and we need to sell papers in this digital time, but we can’t be reporting on presidents and governors grabbing this and that and otherwise sexually assaulting women and at the same time add to the disrespect. Tabloid writers can be creative wordsmiths, sometimes even better than the sports scribes, so maybe it’s time to look for synonyms.

Art Gunther