Dumb — that’s the word to describe Gov. DeSantis’ wish to end vaccine mandates.
I guess the news from South Carolina (where flu cases are rising rapidly) hasn’t reached Tallahassee yet.
Please heed me, parents and anyone who has influence over parents and guardians of children.
I have had the measles, and it was everywhere from my intestines to my eyelids. It could have killed me. I missed 30 days of school. The misery of 75 years ago and the feel of cracking Calamine lotion on my skin is still fresh in my mind.
Protect your children.
Bill Gralnick, Boca Raton
Whitewashing history
Propagandists at the Heritage Foundation consider critical race theory (CRT) to be “ideological indoctrination.”
In fact, CRT is history. It is the actual history of the U.S.A., not a whitewashed, dishonest version. CRT is the truth. The Heritage Foundation representatives are the lying propagandists.
Lou Bluestein, Boynton Beach
Abnormal behavior, period
When there are glaring issues with a president’s physical or mental condition, regardless of party, something must be done. Instead people are trying to excuse Donald Trump’s obvious decline by citing Joe Biden.
Biden’s health in office has nothing to do with Trump’s health issues. They’re real. Trump is more dangerous than he was the first time!
His nasty statements, childish name-calling, lack of knowledge of important areas (or a blatant disregard for our laws) and total lack of respect for others is disgraceful, and I believe in many areas, illegal, too. How is this possible in this country? Where are we headed?
Never in our history have we had a sitting president who exhibits his behavior.
When did it become OK for the leader of the U.S. to tell the world he’s seeking revenge on his political opponents? How childish, sensitive and vengeful can he be? Such traits in an adult are not normal.
Harriet Cohen, Tamarac
Getting it backward
I call your editorial staff the Mariana Trench of journalism. When you think they can’t go lower, they take another step down. Your Dec. 6 editorial begged for clemency for men on death row because they served in the military — typical convoluted thinking of bleeding-heart liberals who always put the criminal ahead of the victim.
You cite Army Sgt. Jeffrey Hutchinson, executed in May. All the good sergeant did was kill his girlfriend and her three children. You quoted Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, which said: “The devastating murders for which Jeff was convicted do not erase the sacrifices he made for our nation.”
You’ve got it exactly backward. The sacrifices he made for our nation do not erase the fact that he took four innocent lives. Hutchinson got the punishment he deserved, and the family of the victims got the justice they deserved.
Funny, though: Our military “double taps” a boat, killing drug smugglers, and lefty loons are quick to call Secretary Hegseth a murderer. But a man kills a woman and her children in cold blood and he deserves our mercy. What planet did you pinheads fall from?
Neal Bluestein, Boca Raton
(Editor’s Note: The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board opposes the death penalty. In Hutchinson’s case, we cited experts who doubted his mental competence because of PTSD and Gulf War illness. He refused to let his lawyers plead insanity.)
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