Editor:
Re: “Intolerance towards unvaccinated is getting toxic,” Editorial, Oct. 15.
I won’t argue with your editorial points that the unvaccinated are humans too and our neighbours, as these are the same criteria I use to reconcile myself to scooterboard riders.
But do we not also owe some humanistic consideration to people diagnosed with cancer and other progressive diseases, who currently have to wait longer for treatment than they would if the hospitals weren’t stuffed with
those for whom Facebook and Instagram are the trusted health authorities?
It would have been nice if getting 70 per cent of the population vaccinated had pushed COVID-19 into the background, and we could just leave the remainder of the population to congratulate themselves that they hadn’t been taken in by whatever globalist or reptilian or extraterrestrial or extraterrestrial globalist reptilian plot they believe is behind the vaccines.
But the virus got more transmissible and spoiled that hope. So while I’m usually on the side of calls for greater patience between people, in this case patience has an obvious human cost.
David Stow, Elphinstone
