This is an open letter request for someone to tell the caring and responsible people why so many people have decided to not get vaccinated or wear a mask. By not doing these two simple things they risk their health, their life, and the health, and life of their own family and friends.

            Statistics show those who have had both shots and the booster are over 95% protected from getting sick or needing to go to the hospital. Wearing a mask keeps you from transmitting the disease to someone else like a child or a baby. Almost all of those filling hospital beds haven’t had their shots and the rest who have been listed as fully vaccinated didn’t get their boosters so fully vaccinated isn’t true.

            Those people who get it may not be out of the woods when they are considering themselves well. Many will be what are called long haulers. Those are people who will have physical and cognitive problems for weeks afterward.

            I have yet to hear or read any intelligent answer to the question. Do they think they are better than anyone else? Do they not realize polio vaccines are the reason why kids are not wearing leg braces as my classmate Dennis Meyers did or my father’s weaken left arm? Consider the elimination of measles so kids are not blinded and suffer other effects.

            Yes, these vaccines aren’t 100% effective but in today’s jet world we all just need to do the best we can to save everyone, their families, and others. So again, why?