Dear Editor,
Sooooo… All of the COVID-19 protections have been lifted in B.C.
We have elderly parents and have been very careful around them during this excessively long pandemic. We have been wearing masks the entire time and still do while in any public place.
When the vaccine passport was implemented, we were so happy to feel somewhat safe going to the gym, enjoying a meal out, or visiting our elders in their beautiful new assisted living home.
Now, masks are not required for visitors where our parents live. We still wear them in communal spaces within the building and encourage our parents to do so.
We sort of understand lifting the mask mandate in public places where people have proven they are vaccinated but, discontinuing proof of the vaccine passport is insane. Now we won’t be going to the gym because people without a vaccination could pass the virus on to us and we in turn could pass it on to our parents.
We understand the new version of COVID-19 is less deadly than previous strains, but it still kills. It’s the elders who die first and we don’t want to be the cause of anyone dying, especially elderly family members.
Our freedom is being curtailed, again! People who haven’t made the effort to get a vaccine are out there carelessly spreading full-strength COVID-19 again!
Yes, we know people who are fully vaccinated can be infected and spread COVID-19. But they spread a very low load of the virus.
Fully vaccinated people who come in contact with infected unvaccinated people will need to contend with a much stronger virus load than if the infected person was fully vaccinated.
Why did the government go to so much effort to implement the vaccine passport system to just abandon it when we are facing another wave of COVID-19? B.C., please reinstate the vaccine passport requirement for non-essential public places.
Christine Durgo
