July 30, 2021
Dear editor;
Some individuals make bad decisions based on faulty logic. For instance, when deciding between wearing a mask, or a ventilator, they’re pretty sure a mask makes their butt look bigger.
All joking aside, it’s time to sleeve up, mask up, and vaccinate. The life you save may be your own, or one of your own.
I keep hearing many say they won’t vaccinate because they don’t believe the vaccine has been tested enough. My understanding is that the J & J Vaccine has been in development since the 1970s. The RNA in the Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines have been in development for decades and used for flu, HIV, and cancer.
The Delta variant which we are dealing with now is more contagious than the original COVID-19, but is adversely affecting mainly those who have not been vaccinated (more than 90% of those hospitalized are not vaccinated). Although the variant is powerful enough to infect vaccinated persons, those vaccinated are less likely to become very sick, or to need hospitalization and less likely to die from the virus.
Asymptomatic persons who get the variant, however, vaccinated or not, can carry loads in their noses 1,000 times more potent each to infect others than the original COVID-19. That is why it is still so important to wear a mask even if you are vaccinated because even vaccinated persons can carry the virus and pass it on.
The virus is the enemy, not the vaccine, not masks. Let’s work together to defeat this killer with free vaccines available at nearly every store in the U.S… We have an abundance of vaccines while others in the world are dying for it. Wearing a mask won’t kill you, but the virus can.
Judy Siedlecki, Oswego