Is COVID the real cop-killer?
I cannot understand the organized refusal of police to accept COVID vaccinations. Frank Cerabino reported that the number of police deaths due to COVID was four times greater than all other causes of police deaths, such as gunshots or car accidents.
Do the police have a death wish or they like courting with a dangerous deadly contagious disease? All of the evidence published to date proves that the Pfizer, Moderna and J&J vaccines are safe and effective in preventing 95 percent of coronavirus cases in vaccinated individuals. And yet, some police refuse the vaccine due to an infringement on their personal freedoms. However, in doing so, they neglect to protect the public good and welfare!
Harold I. Sussman, West Palm Beach
Vaccines can help law enforcement
A recent news article documented the loss of 700 law enforcement officers already this year, largely from COVID. Many more than from any other cause, including shootings.
Having received my booster shot, I cannot understand how people who are forced by their jobs to be in daily contact with others who could, and obviously are, carriers of the deadly virus, but avoid the very basic means of protection for themselves? Do they also avoid the use of bulletproof vests, radios to call for backup or EMTs, just because they think they are invincible? And want to resign when mandated to get vaccinated? After all, just who do their leaders think they are, trying to save their lives? All politics aside, we need everyone to overcome COVID-19. I did not vote for Joe Biden, but I see his vaxxing mandates as perhaps the only productive thing he has done, so for once, let's work together to save everyone's lives, police or civilian, and this applies to all who are fighting against common sense rules or measures. Try to stay alive, one and all.
Roger J McCord, Boynton Beach
Police ignoring valid vaccine
Police officers who would use deadly force on citizens resisting their "lawful order" are declaring their own right to ignore mandatory vaccination directives? Wouldn't this make the individual incapable of performing his or her duty and ineligible to continue as a sworn officer of the law? Upholding some of the laws some of the time is not enough.
Dave Sullivan, Palm Beach Shores
'Patriot' meaning lost
The "patriot" restaurant owner described in your "Holy cannoli! Italian restaurant in Jupiter serves pointed Biden message to diners" article is confused on the word's meaning. A patriot in America is one who respects election results. That is the basis of our democracy. On this simple fact, Trump and his supporters are this nation's traitors.
Patrick Conroy, Lake Worth
Story on Hispanic culture appreciated
A river of dulce de leche runs through Palm Springs, a village powered by Cuban coffee, Uruguayan empanadas, Puerto Rican mofongo, and Mexican paletas. The Palm Beach Post’s Liz Balmaseda feeds us delicious morsels like these in the front-page Oct. 15 story of the Hispanic culture of Palm Springs, the municipality with our county’s largest concentration of Latinos. What an engaging way to tell us about each other in a way that makes us want to continue the conversation in person, with a café con leche in one hand and a palmera in the other.
Kelly Amerson López, Lake Worth