Letters to the editor – February 26, 2023

medical truth

Jay Bhattacharya was one of the few medical experts willing to speak out against the lack of scientific support for the draconian and destructive measures imposed on the nation during the pandemic and for many years after the crisis ended (“The nation still needs the full truth about COVID” – Martin Kulldorf and Jay Bhattacharya, PostOpinion, February 22).

Those who in these areas swallowed their questions and stood in disguised silence can now live with the results of their choices.

Medicine has always been an inexact science, open to questions, research, and research, but this has not been the case during the pandemic. The most terrifying outcome is not the total lack of trust we now have in the field of medicine, but the realization of the breadth and scope of the conspiracy between those in medicine and big pharma, big tech, the media and our government to impose their will on it. a “free” nation, whatever the cost to its citizens.

Contemptible and horrific. Let them reap what they have sown.

E. Muller

Brewster

Benefits of a salary increase

The Post editorial, “Albany’s Crazy Bidding War” (February 22), goes to great lengths to avoid talking about the benefits of raising and indexing the minimum wage.

Not only does this allow workers to keep pace with inflation, thereby maintaining purchasing power, but it also gives businesses relative cost confidence and the ability to plan ahead for a reasonable increase from year to year.

The majority of minimum wage earners are adults, and more than a quarter of them have families. As such, their earnings usually go back into the local economy, especially the small business in the neighborhood, to buy basic necessities.

Eighteen other states have figured this out and are automatically adjusting or indexing the minimum wage each year. It’s time for New York City to break the cycle of infrequent raises that result in underpaid and lower living standards for those at the bottom of the pay scale.

Mario Cilento, President, NYS AFL-CIO

Manhattan

Punch over shrimp

A father is grieving as one of his sons is dead and the other is in a hospital bed (“Shrimp Thief Killed,” February 23).

And a fishmonger with no previous convictions faces a murder charge. The inconsolable father cries: “My sons were good children, they will not get into trouble. They are not notorious criminals” and “I can’t believe my boy was killed because of the shrimp.”

Who is guilty? Could it be an all-permissive liberal society that forgoes institutional discipline for minority children out of a concern for social justice? Or state and city governments that, out of restorative justice, encourage crime in cities like New York?

What will it take to end the self-inflicted wounds that reflect these tragedies? A return to the Ten Commandments and personal responsibility?

Noel Anenberg

Encino, California.

Weak signal

I disagree with “Vlad’s Last Hope” by Dalibor Rohach (PostOpinion, 22 Feb.

We were drawn into the war in Ukraine primarily by the weakening of the West.

Let’s not forget that it was President Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan that led to the deaths of 13 US troops and signaled to presidents like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping how weak this administration’s foreign policy posture is.

Senator Mitch McConnell is wrong, America’s “cold, hard, practical interests” currently lie on our soil, and “a stern warning to other potential aggressors like the People’s Republic of China” has already been leaked in Afghanistan.

Chris Ramsden

Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey

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