Not good enough
I was a little surprised to see that only 84% of Hilo Medical Center, our only hospital, is vaccinated.
Kudos to the laundry department for getting to 100%, but they would never touch me if I was in the hospital. What about all those hands-on nurses, docs, attendants, etc.?
What happened to the importance of public health? Why would someone’s freedom or religious beliefs rule over the overall policy of keeping our population safe from a deadly disease … in a hospital, where you have no choice to go or not?
I really don’t get it. Is the hospital so desperate for employees that they can’t maintain a safe policy of 100% vaccinations for public health?
The vaccines have been available for almost a year now. I would say 84% just isn’t good enough. I pray I don’t get into an accident or need any hospital care. I will pray for those who do. God bless.
Joan Hildal
Hakalau
Misleading column
I found the Kathleen Parker opinion piece (Tribune-Herald, Oct. 28) totally misleading, as she called the tragic killing of an innocent person by a firearm an “accidental lethal shooting.”
No firing of a firearm is accidental. It is either purposeful or negligent.
She also wrote that an accidental death was 2% of all firearm deaths compared to suicides and homicides. This killing is clearly a homicide. The definition of homicide is the killing of one person by another. It doesn’t matter if it was legal or not.
The sheriff’s department has not ruled this incident an “accident” and has said publicly that it is being criminally investigated at this point. No one has been charged, but charges have not been ruled out.
Not sure why the Tribune-Herald allows this opinion piece to be printed when the authorities have not completed their investigation yet, and the family of this talented young lady is hurting deeply.
Also, Parker’s leap to a dubious political connection is not helpful to anyone, including an understandably devastated Alec Baldwin.
Don Rudny
Pepeekeo
America gone mad?
The Wall Street Journal has just published an article on Oct. 28 stating President Biden’s administration wants to offer immigrant families separated during the Trump administration $450,000 per person in compensation to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government detained them and subjected them to psychological trauma.
Why is Biden taking our hard-earned money to foolishly pay illegal aliens who broke the U.S. immigration laws to illegally occupy the United States? It is analogous to paying a burglar who broke into your house, ate your food, and you need to pay them for detaining them before the police arrested them and they were later sentenced to jail by the court system.
What about all our friends and neighbors who had to follow the immigration laws and wait for years to have our families immigrate to Hawaii legally? There is a fair immigration process that has been established and should be followed. Is that fair to let people cut in line and grant them entry into our country before all of those who follow the rules and wait for their turn?
Why should the government increase the taxes on U.S. citizens to frivolously spend on things that do not benefit us? Has the nation gone mad?
Are we going to acquiesce or stand up to protect ourselves and our future generations? Contact your elected officials and let them know how you feel. The elected officials should work for the constituents and are not kings dictating to the subjects.
Louis Pau
Hilo