Letters: Anti-vaxxers should reject COVID-19 care; Governors hypocritical on freedom of choice; Crowds at Lanikai Beach driving out the locals

Anti-vaxxers should reject COVID-19 care

In response to the 200 demonstrators who view the vaccine-or-test mandate as an infringement on personal freedom (“Vaccine-or-test mandates in Hawaii spur protest rally,” Star-Advertiser, Aug. 10): I love your rally cry, “It’s our body, It’s our choice,” and especially, “Live free or die.”

So when you contract the COVID-19 delta variant, please do just that. Stay home and gasp for air. Embrace your freedom. Do not go to the hospital, burden our health care system or become a slave to the pharmaceutical industry that could save your life. You want natural immunity? Looks like you prefer natural selection.

Deborah Luckett

Waialae-Kahala

Governors hypocritical on freedom of choice

When anti-vaxxers claim, “My body, my choice,” how many also would ban birth control and abortions? Those people only expose their hypocrisy.

We see this on the national scale when governors say they won’t force vaccinations and masking to preserve freedom of choice, but are willing to ban masking and vaccinations using the same reason. This is insanity.

Cyrus Won

Wilhelmina Rise

Trim weeds near canal along Kalakaua Avenue

With hurricane season here, it’s sad to see the neglect on cutting the grass and weeds along the canal that runs parallel to Kalakaua Avenue between King and Philip streets.

Years ago that canal overflowed when it rained for more than 30 days, and the grass was low. Today it is the same height as the sidewalk and you can’t see the riverbed. Can that be cleared before a disaster arises and floods those living next to it?

Kekoa McGuire

McCully-Moiliili

Crowds at Lanikai Beach driving out the locals

Build another road in and out and a parking lot in Lanikai (“Protect access to Hawaii’s trails, beaches,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Aug. 4)?

Already Lanikai Beach is so full of tourist groups that some residents don’t even swim there when the water gets too murky.

These reckless suggestions are beyond ridiculous. We need to control access to that beach, not encourage it.

Marcia Del Mar

Kailua

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