Hello, Mr. Godbout, I just want to comment that you have a lot more patience for anti-vaxers than I do (A shot in the arm, May 13), whether it's COVID or other vaccines.
The biggest problem I see is people have quickly forgot what life in Canada was like before vaccines. The suffering and death from everything from small pox, cholera, typhoid, polio to diphtheria, TB, whooping cough and tetanus, to name a few, has been fully or mostly eliminated from our country.
All the earthy people, religious nuts and others need to be reminded that homeopathic, Indigenous, Chinese or Ayurveda medicines and practices and prayers did not eliminate these diseases and just don't compare to modern medicine, including vaccines.
Those that choose to ignore the past and folks that have a deep personal reason for choosing not to get vaccinated can do so but need to pay a price for that. Not all that long ago, when my children started school in the late 1980s, they still had to have proof of vaccinations in order to be enrolled.
Simple choice: homeschooling or vaccination.
Somewhere it changed and we've seen a resurgence of things like measles, for example.
Should be no different today. either get vaccinated or you can't expect to fully participate in society, except for true medical exemptions, of course.
People here have just forgot there are no rights without responsibilities.
Maybe an all-inclusive trip to a Third World village experiencing a cholera outbreak would be in order. Help treat the sick and collect the dead, then dinner with advanced leprosy victims. All completely avoidable had those people only had access to the applicable vaccines.
Ken Landrock
Smithers
