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Today s letters: Readers comment on immigration enforcement, President Biden s infrastructure plan and Biden s comments on racial injustice
The Gainesville Sun
Disregard for humanity
Baker Interfaith Friends, volunteers visiting people held in immigration detention in the Baker County Detention Facility, have learned a lot about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency during the last six years.
The peak of the agency s disregard for humanity was exemplified two weeks ago in the deportation of a man to India during a horrible resurgence of coronavirus ravaging that country. No, he was not given a vaccine before departure, readily available here only a phone call to his wife in Florida and a one-way ticket to pandemonium.
The Gainesville Sun
Get vaccinated
I was more than surprised to read in Friday’s Sun that many front-line health care workers have declined vaccinations and that only 47% of the workforce at UF Health Shands Hospital has been vaccinated against the coronavirus. What are they thinking?
If they have not contracted COVID-19 during the past year, while being exposed to patients, they are very fortunate. That does not mean, however, that they will not contract the virus or unknowingly spread it to others in the future.
Most of the people I know have been poised in front of their computers or cradling their cellphones during the past few months, as they try to book appointments to be vaccinated. I strongly advocate the advice of physicians and scientists who say, “When your turn comes, take it!”