Supreme Court ruling shows inconsistency
The Supreme Court deterred the federal government from mandating vaccines for employees of large companies. In spite of 800,000 deaths from COVID-19, and the resistance of the belligerently stupid to get vaccinated, why is that a positive development? It should establish that the government does not have control over our bodies. If the court is consistent, it cannot take the right to give birth or not to give birth from women. It cannot say that you don’t have the right to smoke a joint in your own living room. And it should not interfere in the most important right we have as humans, the right to determine when and how we die. If it is not consistent in these matters, we need a constitutional amendment to ensure these rights.
G. Spencer Myers, Boynton Beach
President Biden deserves better
How disappointing it is to read letters in protest of President Biden’s efforts to protect and preserve the American people. Advanced planning and a pull-together attitude would have averted the overflow in our hospitals, exhaustion of our health workers, and 800,000 deaths. This virus was not the issue upon which to open a discussion on personal rights, while we have so many other things that need attention and funding, including fires and tornadoes.
Rose Berliner, Boynton Beach
Florida spending 'Biden-bucks'
I was amused to read about how our governor and our Republican-led legislators plans to spend the money that the federal government has given the state, while continuing to bash the Biden Administration for providing it. Makes them hypocrites, no? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Ann Malachowski, Tequesta
Guest column way off-base
This letter is in response to the Kurt Kelley guest column criticizing recent Frank Cerabino columns. There is a lot to unbundle here, but let’s just address the COVID-19 part. Mr. Kelly seems to find it absurd for asymptomatic people to get tested for COVID-19. He compares such testing to people getting fitted for leg braces in anticipation of an accident or health problem. In my high school civics class section on “errors in logic,” this would be called a false analogy.
As Mr. Cerabino points out, one can be infected with COVID-19 and remain asymptomatic from two days up to two weeks, and being in the middle of a pandemic, our chances of being infected are certainly far higher than suddenly needing leg braces. During that asymptomatic period, a person who does not know they are infected could spread their infection to others, not something we need to be concerned about with wonky leg worries. Mr. Kelly also claims Mr. Cerabino’s logic would make COVID as dangerous as the Black Plague. For the record, Mr. Cerabino made no such implication.
Rick Beardsley, Boca Raton
'Graveyard' remark needs correcting
At the governor’s State of the State address, he declared that pandemic policies in other states have sent people’s rights “to the graveyard.” Actually what he failed to mention is that Florida’s failure to protect people from sickness led its people “to the graveyard.” To the people who survived his approach to a deadly pandemic, let us rise up and send him and his autocratic political ambitions “to the graveyard.”
Mary Nagle, Boynton Beach
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Supreme Court ruling on Biden's vaccine mandate shows inconsistency
