Editor:
I read with interest the letter from Colleen Simmons in Lakes District News, Feb. 2, 2022 issue, addressed to Prime Minister Trudeau accusing him of crimes against humanity and causing a depopulation event. I doubt the prime minister will respond but I would like to offer a rebuttal.
Ms. Simmons, you refer to Covid 19 vaccinations as an experimental gene therapy death jab. Gene therapy seeks to treat an illness by replacing a defective gene in a patient鈥檚 DNA with a normal healthy gene. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines don鈥檛 use DNA. They use mRNA, messenger ribonucleic acid, to instruct a cell鈥檚 ribosomes to manufacture a spike protein that triggers a natural immune defense to the SARS CoV2 virus. These vaccines have nothing to do with gene therapy, they do not and cannot alter a person鈥檚 genes. You appear to have been misinformed in this regard.
The policies our federal and provincial governments have enacted to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic are roughly similar to the policies of pretty much every country around the globe, many with harsher policies. Your view that these policies amount to 鈥榝ascists pushing death jabs鈥� implies that you believe governments and medical professionals all around the world are engaged in a global conspiracy to kill their citizens and patients for some unspecified reason. That strikes me as being rather unrealistic.
I could mention that almost all the people still dying of Covid-19 are unvaccinated but I suspect you would dismiss that fact as 鈥榝ake news鈥� because the media are also in on the massive conspiracy to kill us all. I subscribe to several science, news and technology publications. Traditional media relies on paying subscribers to fund their professional investigative journalists, writers and editors. I can鈥檛 imagine why they would want to kill off their paying customers with deadly misinformation, that would be a bad business model.
You make repeated reference to being a God loving Christian as if being a person of faith and an anti-vaxer are somehow aligned. This is not the case. I personally know several devout Christians who are fully vaccinated. Some might take offence at you using the name of the Lord in vain to promote your personal ideas.
Walter Vanderkamp
