Using COVID as a fear tactic

Can’t believe the latest from our government-interstate vaccine passports to travel from state to state? We have a working vaccine; if you take it you’re supposedly protected so what does it matter if others don’t? They are only exposing themselves.

This panic is to promote more shutdowns and school closures. What if I told you passing one law would prevent half a million deaths a year? That many people die from smoking or the use of other tobacco products but no one says we need tobacco passports or advocates denying smokers medical care. If we truly cared about protecting life we’d do something about smoking before we shut down the country because of COVID. Seems we’re not serious about protecting life but are instead all about keeping us in fear and under control!

— Warren Garriga, Chico