I truly want to offer my opinion concerning the health crisis we now face nationwide. Let me make it clear that I am not interested in any political rebuttals. If you think COVID-19 and the Delta plus and the possible MU variant is based on politics due to the party now in power then you are an absolute idiot. If you don't know anyone who has been affected or died from this horrible virus pandemic then you must be living under a rock somewhere. And, its only getting worse and without vaccinations it will never leave.

Like I said, this is not a political view, but when Biden announced new governmental rules yesterday some people went off their rockers. I am trying to talk about information that can rid our country of this horrible and devastating virus. I hate to mention names but FOX News opinion hosts, not their journalists, blasted Biden on his new plan to combat this virus.

Folks, it has to stop no matter who leads this country. Why does politics have to play a part in medical information, why do senators have to accuse Dr. Fauci of lying when he only knows what is being found out by medical doctors and scientists and reports to the senate with this info. Watch the news, parents, grandparents, children are all dying because of this horrible virus. Even conservative radio hosts are dying after proclaiming on air that it is a hoax.

Almost everyone over 40 years old has a scar on their shoulder from the smallpox vaccine, no more smallpox and you're welcome. Almost everyone over the age of 40 took a medicine laced sugar cube so no more polio, you're welcome. I am tired of hearing from country bumpkins that the "Guvmint" can't tell me what to do and people who live for different political parties think this is a sham brought on by secret government agents to assure who rules our country.

If you think all that is true and you're not vaccinated but get COVID-19 and pass it on to weaker relatives who die from it then you should be charged with second degree murder. And, that is happening every day.

If you think the shot hurts then you're the biggest coward I have ever heard of or if someone has some side affects because their body reacts to it, just like a cold or the flu. God above gave us these bodily assets to fight off this bacteria and virus, so expect some discomfort from the shots if your body does the natural thing and fights it off and prepares for another attack.

Please, I am begging you to get your vaccine and stop this horrible pandemic and allow the USA to get back to some sort of normalcy. And then we can maybe help the world, like we used to help the less fortunate countries, get rid of it also. We were a nation founded under God with liberty and justice for all and that means taking care of each other and those less fortunate.

Clifton Duggan

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Vacant political ideologies will never justify denying school children the best and most complete opportunity to be and to remain safe and healthy in the classroom.

Michael Mallen

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Biden made it political when he said on Dec. 4, 2020, that he would not mandate the vaccine.  Of course, this was when it was Trump's vaccine. Remember “Operation Warp Speed”?  Biden could not stomach a vaccine developed by the Republican President's initiative.  Then last week he mandated it.  But not for everyone, only other people.  There is no congressional mandate.  Biden left them out.  Some say he can’t, that it would be illegal.  So many say his mandate is illegal anyway. 

If he has not got the political fortitude or influence to even get his buddies Pelosi and Schumer to support requiring the congress to take the jab, then why should others?  He gave the Post Office an exemption too.

Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki announced the mandate does not cover “migrants” only the common folk.  More than 18 percent of migrant families who recently crossed the border tested positive for COVID before being released by Border Patrol. Another 20 percent of unaccompanied minors tested positive for the virus. About 30 percent of migrants held at federal detention facilities are refusing to be vaccinated, and they have the option to refuse. 

It's either political or the ravings of a lunatic.  What this does is change the discussion from the “folks he left behind in Afghanistan, when he pulled the military out first” to a COVID mandate. 

I’m not arguing the benefit or not, I took the vaccine, but don’t tell me it is not political.  Different standards for different folks, political. 

Jim Folkner