Star Journal This week’s Viewpoint letters
Editor,
The wolf is the last vestige of Wisconsin’s wilderness. Our wilderness heritage is sacred. Its preservation is in our hands.
Let us not let the “thrill of the hunt,” the “thrill of the kill” selfishly override our responsibility to preserve our God-given wilderness. We are its guardians. It has been entrusted to us. If not us, who?
Please put aside the thrill of the hunt, the thrill to bring down a living being by baiting (e.g., bear with apples and Oreos) or stalking with dogs. Is there no end to this savage urge to kill?
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The County Emergency Management Department helps direct people and keeps lines moving. Health department workers and volunteers get people signed in and on their way.
And people from all different places are helping administer the shots. Some are volunteer nurses and EMTs that are doing this in their free time.
Others are from the Rhinelander Fire Department like Luke Drummond.
“There’s people that don’t like needles and they’re a little bit nervous and afraid of that, but for the most part, I think people are excited. It’s one step closer to a normal life again,” said Drummond.
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Jim Jarvis receives his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the community clinic in Rhinelander Friday. Administering the vaccine was Rhinelander EMT Nate Bates.
‘One arm of a big collaborative effort’
By Eileen Persike
Editor
The Oneida County Health Department (OCHD) held its first mass COVID-19 vaccine clinic Jan. 29-30, for people age 65 and older. Volunteers, including EMTs and retired nurses, administered the shots while OCHD nursing staff was “running the show, making sure everything is done,” said director Linda Conlon. The clinic was held at Foursquare Church, where Conlon expected to vaccinate a total of 1,000 pre-registered individuals over the two-day clinic. She said it was running smoothly.
Vaccine provides light at the end of the tunnel
By Eileen Persike
Editor
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story indicated that Phase 1b vaccinations would begin later this month. In fact, Phase 1a vaccines are continuing, with assisted living facilities and non-healthcare frontline worker
Email I became a lightning rod : Wisconsin health officers have been vilified and threatened during COVID-19, and some have quit
Madeline Heim and Mary Spicuzza, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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A protester outside the Sheboygan County Courthouse in September shares a common criticism of public health officers: that by trying to regulate people s behavior to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they re overstepping their charge.
Gary Klein/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
As the coronavirus pandemic was first hitting Wisconsin in early spring, Tim Lawther issued a press release he hoped would help his community understand the risk of contracting the disease.