Childhood vaccine mandates and more: Letters – Latest News
Jab judiciously
Thank you, Bethany Mandel, for writing an article that exhibits some fact in regards to the hepatitis B shot for newborns, which make no sense (“Seeking Vax Sanity,” PostOpinion, Jan. 8).
Parents aren’t allowed to query it if we would like our youngsters to go to high school — it’s madness.
New York state vaccine mandates ought to permit medical and non secular exemptions. Parents need to be given a alternative and the mandates need to stop.
Thanks for at the very least beginning the dialog, Bethany.
Carolyn Lieberman, Woodmere
Tony’s tragic debut
I believed I used to be watching Chevy Chase’s Weekend Update as Tony Dokoupil fumbled his approach via his first episode (“Worst impression,” Jan. 7).
Tripping over a teleprompter pin, and giving his viewers too many seconds of useless air, he jogged my memory more of Will Ferrell’s anchorman than he did of Walter Cronkite.
The latter symbolized the very best high quality nightly information on CBS, additionally known as the Tiffany community as a result of of its superior programming. It seems to be like Dokoupil broke the Tiffany glass ceiling with an incompetent and amateurish presentation.
Ray Starman, Albany
Pro-protest prez?
President Trump claims that the United States is “locked and loaded,” able to defend Iranian protesters ought to their own authorities attempt to shoot them into submission (“Freedom Fight,” Mark Dubowitz, & Ben Cohen, PostOpinion, Jan. 7).
Why does he lack the identical ardour for defending his own people once we collect in protest? He’s prepared to start out a warfare defending protesters in a nation that’s not his own however didn’t say a phrase when ICE brokers shot pepper bullets at Rev. David Black, a man of God protesting the inhumane therapy of detainees in Chicago.
Shouldn’t an American citizen so unjustly handled warrant far higher ardour than that which Trump proclaims for strangers in a international land?
Denise Saupé, Minneapolis, Minn.
Deadly bike lanes
Born and raised in Greenpoint; I bear in mind when Oakland Street grew to become McGuinness Boulevard, assuaging native road site visitors (“It’s a go for B’klyn bike lane,” Jan. 6).
Now Mayor Mamdani has determined it’s higher to have a devoted bike lane alongside the boulevard, thus creating more site visitors on the native streets.
Has he thought of what impact this may have on emergency site visitors? How about native deliveries? How many deaths will happen with more vans and automobiles touring alongside native streets?
My 14-year-old niece was killed in a hit-and-run whereas taking part in within the native road in entrance of her home. How many different pedestrians will likely be victims of vehicle accidents on native streets?
This entire bike-lane thought is unsafe and idiotic.
Robert Leavy, Middle Village
No-meat mania
Natalya Murakhver makes an fascinating connection between an excessive diet and Greta Thunberg’s excessive views (“Vegan vessel,” Postscript, Jan. 4).
Her actions after the Oct. 7 bloodbath confirmed a lack of compassion that’s actually sickening.
I’m sure some of the masked rioters during the George Floyd protests who burned, intimidated and closed down cities have been vegan as properly. It’s as if this diet offers a ethical high ground that frees one from true morality.
The writer is right in saying Thunberg is no hero and mother and father need to be vigilant in regard to those “fads” their youngsters might be drawn into.
Catherine Adago, Manhattan
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