Sound Off for Jan. 16, 2022
Good call
I applaud the Supreme Court for upholding the requirement for health care facilities to require employees to be vaccinated. If I’m a patient, I don’t want my nurses and doctors to give me COVID.
Controls needed
There are 2.94 million residents in Mississippi. If the medical marijuana bill goes through, probably half of them will suddenly have a malady that only pot benefits. It must be tightly controlled and enforced at all levels. If you limit quantity and availability of other prescription narcotics, limit pot to real need. Stringently and scrupulously monitor cannabis or it will be sold and traded downstream like food stamps used to be and prescription narcotics are today.
Too many lies
What is going on? All the promises made by then-presidential candidate Biden have so far been a bunch of lies. He has no solutions. And liberals will try to salvage his administration, but it is too late.
Un-American?
The great resignation is nothing but a bunch of selfish Americans who are taking advantage of a terrible situation to “get theirs.” Shame on anybody for glorifying something that could only be considered un-American.
Good and bad
Yes, guns can kill. But they can also save your life.
Short supply
The reason the federal government has to allocate the COVID monoclonal antibody is that it is is in short supply. If the government didn’t do it, that would put the companies in the position of having to allocate without necessarily having access to good data. It also removes the possibility of a bidding war (or even bribery) for the product.
Florida governor
As Florida hospitals are overwhelmed with unvaccinated hospitalized patients, their governor proclaims mandates don’t work. Since he refused mandates, it is clear he has another form of illness. When will the craziness stop? Masks and vaccines work and are the only answer if you truly want this to end.
Electric vehicles
I think the author of the “crazy situation” Sound Off has a misunderstanding of electric vehicles. Gasoline powered cars have no advantage over EV’s in a situation like the one in Virginia. It all depends on how much gas you have in your tank or how much charge is left in your battery. All things being equal the EV would do just fine. These vehicles are not solar powered. And then there’s the fact that EV’s don’t put off carbon monoxide, which could be a big problem for the occupants of the gasoline powered cars. Bring on the EV’s.
Bold call
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot should fire all teachers who refuse to return to the classroom. The science is clear; they’ll be as safe or safer than anywhere else in the city. It may take creative measures, incentives and time to attract their replacements from around the country. but kids are out already. President Reagan fired air traffic controllers because of an illegal strike that crippled our commercial air transportation. Democrats screeched that he couldn’t and it would create chaos. It didn’t and they were replaced by folks who wanted the jobs. Not a problem since. Those who struck over shrill and petty claims haven’t been heard from since.
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