Some people being counseled to death

There are killers walking among us. Some of them carry their invisible weapons in their very bodies while others give diabolical counsel to their friends and loved ones that will surely kill them.

I speak of the COVID vaccine deniers. Imagine counseling your friend or family member not to take the vaccine and then standing over the grave of that loved one because they followed your advice.

We have a very fine Christian neighbor who refused to get vaccinated. My wife tried her best to persuade him and his wife to get vaccinated for their grandchildren’s sake. “We just had two wonderful neighbors move away and we don’t want to loose another,” she reasoned. The other day he confessed that both he and his wife caught COVID.

Now comes the difficult part. What does COVID leave behind? We are learning that it doesn’t leave the body in the same condition it entered it. Survivors are reporting multiple layers of residual conditions including lung damage, depression and cognitive impairment.

Look around at the increased deaths. If the present death rate continues we will reach one million deaths in five months! Do you vaccine deniers really want to stand by the grave of a friend or relative you counseled to death?

— Larry Baumbach, Chico