Editor:
I’m writing to express my extreme disappointment with your editorial of Oct. 15, “Intolerance towards unvaccinated is getting toxic.”
You published four columns “above the fold” rightfully chastising uncivil, disrespectful behaviour by some writers targeting people who don’t want to get vaccinated.
Fair enough.
But where is the equally deserving criticism of those anti-vaccine people who are behaving uncivilly to others, including health-care workers, retail workers, frontline hospitality workers, and others who are spat on, threatened, even physically attacked?
I have searched and found nothing of the sort in your paper other than covering the response from shíshálh hiwus Warren Paull to the protests at the hospital. That was not an editorial.
It is unfortunately true that this pandemic seems to have brought out the worst behaviour in us, but that is true “on both sides.”
I don’t appreciate the amplified blasting of “Nazi” “jack boot” recordings as I take my dog to Davis Bay for his daily romp when the anti-vaxxers are there on Saturday. I feel threatened. And I fear for my niece working in an ER overtime, with three children under seven at home, dealing with deniers who refuse to wear a mask in the hospital, shouting in her face. We both manage to somehow stay civil in the face of those uncivil, even life-threatening acts.
So yes, we all need to be more civil. All of us. And I expect more of my local paper in supporting this. By both sides.
Vickie Morris, Selma Park
