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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eerdoc" data-source="post: 131806785" data-attributes="member: 1071764">Sir:While I generally agree with our doing sll possible to ensure we retsin those freedoms we have believed to be a right for domicile within this Country, I also find myself torn when certain specifics are brought forth. During my lifetime (and that of my parents) several devastating illnesses have been greatly diminished, if not nearly eradicated, because of a massive effort and, in several cases, mandatory insistence on vaccination. I remember vividly the long term, if not permanent, effects of polio infection and the requirements for receiving precautionary treatment. Nearly all of those over age 50 or so got DPT shots prior to beginning school. This was for good reason and cases of those diseases fell to very low levels. The administration of these, and numerous other preventive treatments, have been mandatory  and accepted, not as loss of freedom, but for the reduction/prevention of wide spread illness known to have serious, if not catastrophic, public health consequences. Seems to me that COVID-19 fits the description employed for these other diseases. I often wonder if this pandemic were to have  occurred in an earlier era and/or during ghe Presidency of a more universally appreciated and respected individual if the degree of rejection we have seen would have existed. I find many of the, so-called, “scientific”/medical arguments against this vaccination to be truly “science based” and quite frequently laced with a shopping amount of pseufo-science. Thus, even while bring in overwhelming agreement that our liberties/ freedoms have been and are being rapidly eroded by politicians and, sadly, a growing number of citizens who have agendas regarding the future of this Country which vastly differ from those I hold, I believe that Covid-19 meets the underlying public health criteria for  mandatory intervention.</blockquote>

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