Letters to the Editor for Thursday

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CAN-AM FLIM FLAM
While border towns in Canada are obviously thrilled that fully vaccinated Americans will now be allowed into our country as of Aug. 9, sadly this announcement is not being reciprocated by the U.S. Remember when Justin said he and Joe would be so simpatico? Apparently no!
Al Willey
Edmonton
(Sucker born every minute)

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NOT BUYING IT
I have read every editorial for months and noticed the escalation of the shaming rhetoric. First it was ‘physical distancing,’ people swerving around you in an aisle in the grocery store, then it was ‘social distancing’ because it sounds better. Then it was overusing hand sanitizer and wearing every kind of useless homemade, unwashed mask for weeks. Of course, experts disagreed whether any masks even worked but it was for show anyway and to shut people up. Then vaccines showed up â€" one vaccine, then two, then mixed vaccines were OK, then they weren’t, then 21 days apart, then months because of short supply. AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson we’re OK, then they weren’t because of a few blood clots, now nobody wants them, so we send them to poor countries. And finally we are here â€" prove you are vaccinated or to hell with your constitutional rights, goodbye job, cancel your trips, stay home and have food delivered, or shove a vaccine in your body at least twice that has not been approved by the FDA yet, and still wear a mask, still sanitize, still swerve around each other, and continue shaming the anonymous unvaccinated deviants that you never even thought about when the regular flu did the same thing.
Wayne Martin
Kitchener
(Stay safe)

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ROAD KILL
I applaud Michael Ford’s endeavour to get City Hall to stop closing major thoroughfares so that Torontonians can walk, run or bicycle on them because, as Ford says, people are again visiting Toronto as more and more facilities and venues open, but they can’t bring their cars into downtown (“Councillor calls for city to scrap ActiveTO,” Joe Warmington, Aug. 2). Ford’s plea will fall on deaf ears, though, because Mayor Tory and the cabal of socialists at City Hall will do as much as they can to discourage people from driving their cars into the city. It doesn’t matter to the councillors that businesses are struggling for survival â€" nope, let’s make it difficult if not impossible for customers to get to stores, restaurants, theatres, pubs, etc. City Hall must stop their perpetual social engineering. People who want to walk, run or bicycle will always find streets and parks in which to do that â€" it is absolutely unnecessary to close roads for them. City Hall should focus only on what we pay our taxes for them to do: Roads, garbage pickup, police, parks, water supply, etc.
Robert Laing
Toronto
(Left-wing lunacy in full force)

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