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Letter: Persons of the year (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) An emergency physician gets a COVID-19 vaccine as Lehis Mountain Point Medical Center gives out its first vaccine doses on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. By Chyrle See | The Public Forum   | Dec. 22, 2020, 12:00 p.m. James Oshust has a point when he says that the thousands of health care workers who have been fighting COVID-19 should have been featured by Time magazine as persons of the year. But then he goes on to revile Joe Biden for f...

When Time magazine placed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their cover as Persons of the Year, they insulted hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, other medical personnel and the many first responders who have been in the trenches caring for us during this terrible, devastating pandemic. Instead, they put on a person who spent almost the entirety of his campaign in his basement at home. And a VP candidate who could not engender sufficient public or fiscal support to even physically enter the...