Protecting yourself with vaccination is not punishment

Dear Editor,

The last paragraph of your Tuesday, November 30 editorial suggests that our heroic health care workers should not be punished with job loss due to non-vaccination. Why is it deemed a punishment rather than a privilege to guard their own health and that of their children and people they contact?

Why wouldn’t health care workers who have already done so much good be willing to ignore fear of the needle or discomfort from the shot to be a vital part of saving still more thousands of lives?

Why would health care workers trained in science not agree with the nation’s top scientists and doctors that overcoming the pandemic necessitates many millions more be vaccinated?

Why would those with health concerns not turn to the CDC which posts information for the minute number of people who should not be vaccinated?

And why is there a big fuss about a proven-effective Covid vaccine?

The parents of my youth were more than happy with the polio vaccine. And most reasonable people have not turned thumbs down on vaccination for measles, mumps, etc., from which generations of children have benefited. WHY?

Fern Moore,

Oberlin, Kansas