Letters: We must soon learn to live with the risks of Covid and put an end to debilitating fear
SIR – Is there ever going to be a time when Covid is treated in the same way as other virus infections?
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SIR – Is there ever going to be a time when Covid is treated in the same way as other virus infections?
Governor Cuomo announced that the State Board for Historic Preservation has recommended adding 15 properties to the State and National Registers of Historic Places, including a Staten Island family cemetery created for Gilded Age America's richest man, the oldest existing Muslim mosque in New York City, the Hudson Valley home of a Colonial-era Tory who fled to Canada after the American Revolution, and a Fire Island community founded as a religious-affiliated resort more than a century ago.
Credit: yui mok/pa SIR – A vaccine protects the recipient, so why should anyone who has received one worry about being near someone who hasn’t? Vaccine “certificates” to enter shops and pubs are therefore a ridiculous idea. Joe Greaves SIR – Allowing unvaccinated staff to work in care homes puts at risk the lives of residents, workers and visitors. For care workers, vaccination should be as much a condition of employment as turning up for work on time. We don’t permit airline pilots to fly while drunk on the grounds that demanding sobriety would infringe their liberties. Marion...