Letters To The Editor Week Of 9/13/2021

Pandemic questions
To the editor: Eighteen months, plus vaccine, into this so called "pandemic" and too many schools, corporate, businesses, restaurants etc. continue to force mask mandates and/or vaccine.
They justify their mandates based on nothing more than the fact that they continue to "hear” that "Covid" cases and death stats are going up.
That is, literally, unlikely since "Covid" has replaced, or is the underlying factor, for most illnesses such as all strains of flu, pneumonias, COPD, asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, appendectomies, syndromes etc. Remember them?
Laurie Bahnsen
Oregon