Letter to the Editor

McMorris Rodgers undermining medical advice

Clearly it is public officials like our own Cathy McMorris Rodgers who most irresponsibly undermine trust in the COVID-19 vaccines and other life-saving recommendations made by medical experts during the pandemic.

Her false, fear-mongering public pronouncements on this vital subject are all too characteristic of her.

For example, in a rebuke of Biden’s announcement of likely mandatory COVID vaccines for military members, she called any effort to mandate a vaccine an overreach by the White House, despite military service members already being mandated as many as 17 vaccines, depending on where stationed around the world.

And she added the following statement: “Vaccine mandates will not build trust in the vaccine, and neither will the CDC’s mask mandate based on secret, unpublished, and questionable data. In fact, CDC only made a mask recommendation.

The dire consequences of McMorris Rodgers’ undermining of trust in the vaccines and masks will include more preventable deaths.

Norm Luther

– Spokane