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LETTER: Perhaps anti-vaxxers should be denied healthcare services

‘If you do not wish to care for yourselves, do not ask others to care for you’
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Hundreds of people march along Yale Road near Hodgins Avenue during the Fraser Valley Freedom Rally on Saturday, April 3, 2021. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

Congratulations to the letter writer Elsa Benin (“A different route towards herd immunity,” Progress Letters, July 30, 2021) for saying what many of us think but are too polite to say.

READ MORE: LETTER: A different route towards herd immunity

I would go further in that as a society, we all must obey certain rules and mores in order to function. Some rules are mandatory, others accepted by society as a whole in order to protect us as a city, province and nation.

Proven vaccinations (smallpox, polio malaria) are but some of these we do collectively so as to care for ourselves, relations, and neighbours.

Medicine has improved immeasurably since the use of leeches and bloodletting.

The risk of another Thalidomide tragedy is extremely low and whatever you may believe of the electronic gossip Bill Gates has no interest in what you or I do.

We are not being “chipped” nor does a COVID vaccination affect fertility.

If you as an anti-vaxxer wish to exercise that “right” to endanger others perhaps, since you will become a burden to the already overworked health care system, then that same system which you deny is good and caring for you, should deny you any care and free up space for those who still wait for beds and surgical time, nurses and doctors who are wasting time on you.

Get sick but do not ask for an ambulance or hospitalization.

If you do not wish to care for yourselves, do not ask others to care for you.

Bruce Webster