Replace fear with faith, condemnation with love
Regarding “Vaccines + masks” (Catholic Virginian, Sept. 6):
First, God, our divine creator, has designed the human body so wondrously! At the very moment of conception, all the microscopic developments within the growing fetus go into hyperdrive.
It’s insane to fathom what a complex “machine” our bodies are! From the cellular level to the organs, the muscles, the skeleton, etc., the human body is fantastic how it operates.
Second, corona viruses (colds) aren’t new. Yes, we’ve taken other shots to beat illnesses, but the difference this time is the administration of the mRNA. The former used strands of the “invaders” (polio, measles, flu, etc.), which taught our bodies how to fight them.
Today, Big Pharma interests want (beg, bribe, guilt, bully) us all to disregard God’s perfect design and scrap that for a “miracle in a tube.” This tube isn’t a strand of the virus; it’s a subunit (tiny component) with a mechanism (mRNA) to hijack our system, thus circumnavigating it.
One year in use is not enough time. What historically would’ve shut other vaccines down, at double digits (deaths and other issues), somehow gets a “pass” with digits in the tens of thousands for deaths alone. Perhaps we should pause, use other less extreme options.
Exception: The “perfect body” doesn’t exist for some or isn’t as strong as it once was. This is where new technology explores, not mandates.
Absolutely continue to be a good neighbor (wash hands, cover coughs, stay home when sick, be kind). Reach out to others, the sick, weak, lonely. Replace fear with faith. Replace condemnation with love. Take a moment, slow down. – Rebecca Quick, Smithfield
Don’t scorn, ridicule the unvaccinated
Re: “Vaccinations + Masks = Love of God, Self and Neighbor” (Catholic Virginian, Sept. 20):
For Barbara Hughes, who is a well-respected retreat facilitator and spiritual guide, to be so judgmental of those who choose to not receive what is an experimental shot is troubling.
Hughes states that she is flummoxed by those who are not vaccinated having no problem exposing themselves to others in what she deems a deadly virus. Has it occurred to her and other pro-”vaccine” folks that the flu kills millions of people every year? We are finding out the vaccines don’t work so well in preventing COVID and people are coming down with the virus.
For folks being scorned and ridiculed for deeply held convictions is unprecedented in our country. What happens next? Will those who don’t receive the vaccine be forced to wear an armband or be rounded up and put in camps because they are considered a danger to society? Where does it stop?
I am a person of faith with strong convictions about freedom and liberty, and I respect those who decide to receive the shot as much as those who do not. I will not be coerced into receiving something in my body that has already killed and maimed thousands of people.
That should give us pause to step back, evaluate and do our due diligence by asking why the powers-that-be seem to be working overtime to convince us through fear tactics that we must have this shot or be denied our basic freedoms. – Linda Browning-Kaloski, Chesapeake