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To the Editor, the Leader,

The Leader should be ashamed for running Bill Mann's column "Thanks, Spreadnecks, for our COVID miseries". Its form is the same as WWII propaganda that similarly demonized out-groups and advocated segregating them into camps. What else can one make of "They should not work in offices or schools, should not be allowed in public places" and "Why is it taking so long to completely shut these knuckle-draggers out of civilized society?"

One factor delaying America's descent into pure bio-fascism is its Bill of Rights. Since "the COVID virus doesn't care about rights", Mann pushes to "fire these Typhoid Marys and Harrys", falsely fearing that the asymptomatic healthy are a threat to others just by existing and breathing... not caring that sick-until-proven-healthy is as tyrannical as guilty-until-proven-innocent.

Beyond the evil form of his rant are the dubious claims Mann makes to justify his agenda. He equates polio vaccines with today's barely-tested experimental mRNA shots that are already linked with 13,068 adverse-events deaths... more in half a year than all other vaccines combined during VAERS' 31-year history.

Mann complains "we have to wear masks again because of the boneheads", but the real reason has nothing to do with the unvaxxed. Instead it is CDC data "showing that vaccinated individuals infected with delta may be able to transmit the virus as easily as those who are unvaccinated" and have "measurable viral loads similar to those who are unvaccinated", which is the pretext for masks again being pushed.

Mann blames the unvaxxed for "making innocent people sick, especially children", despite pitiful vaccine ineffectiveness with antibody levels waning in 2-3 months used to justify the current push for twice-yearly booster re-vaccination. By contrast, natural immunity following CV infection is broad and enduring against all variants. Children are at minimal (not "especial") risk, the CDC reporting only 385 deaths under age 18 in 2 years, with John Hopkins finding "a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia".

Mann continually insults the intelligence of "these dolts", baldly saying "Not being vaxxed is ... an IQ test. Over 99 percent of current COVID cases are unvaxxed." Mann fails his own test by misquoting the Surgeon General's debunked claim that "99.5% of Covid deaths [not cases] are among the unvaccinated", a made-up number counting old deaths before the vax was widely available, counting the vaxxed as unvaxxed prior to 2 weeks after their second shot, and counting vaxxed deaths using a much lower PCR Cycle Threshold than unvaxxed deaths. By contrast, England and Israel report 60% of their current deaths are vaccinated.

The overall message is to scapegoat the vaccine hesitant as subhumans who "devastated ... the population at large" so deserve discrimination and loss of livelihood Shame on the Leader for promoting such blatant inflammatory hate speech while censoring all reasoned opposing viewpoints over the past year.

Stephen Schumacher

Port Townsend

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w

http://solmaker.com/public/VAERSdeaths210813.png

https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&EVENTS=ON&VAX=COVID19&DIED=Yes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-guidance/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/jul/vaccine-antibody-levels-start-wane-around-2-3-months

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/natural-immunity-after-covid-19-found-durable-and-robust

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full.pdf

http://solmaker.com/public/CDCdeathsAge210825.png

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-side-effects-hospitalization-kids-11626706868

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/here-we-go-again