Editor:
Many people have strong reactions to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. We absolutely should respect everyone’s right to make their own medical decisions with the support of their medical doctor, without coercion, pressure or incentives.
One’s rights should not be contingent on someone else’s forced compliance.
Our bodies do not belong to the government, and we have the right to say “no” to something being put inside us against our will. To take someone’s job because of their sincerely held religious beliefs is not only immoral, it’s un-American.
We cannot demand our own perception of safety at others’ expense, as much as the fear we are being programmed to embrace pushes us to want to do so.
Safety is an internal feeling that is felt, a personal sense of freedom and peace. It is a sense of hope and direction — one that I refuse to have taken from me, mandate or not.
A mandate doesn’t change our principles, it only makes our faith stronger, and proves even more sincerely who is safe in our lives.
Sarah Falkson
Myerstown
Source: Berkshire mont