Letter to the editor: We can learn from history

RE: “Answering a reader's query on COVID and the media”

I want to touch upon the article answering a reader’s questions on COVID-19 and the media. I assumed it was superb. Thanks for publishing abstract of the the reason why we ought to be vaccinated, if all of it attainable. I believe the general public must know that the Authorities of Canada and public well being division would by no means ask us to do something detrimental to our well being, and they're desperately making an attempt to guard the final inhabitants.

I want to talk to most people to go forward and get your COVID-19 photographs and to be wise in regards to the different restrictions, following pointers relating to masking, distancing and washing your fingers. We can't depend on reactive remedy to save lots of us from this explicit organism, as a result of there are simply too many individuals which are in poor health.

After I assume again to a time of pre-antibiotics, once we had the flu pandemic on the flip of the century, all they'd was the essential aseptic strategies of washing your fingers, distancing, gowning, masking and isolation. That they had no vaccinations in opposition to the flu pandemic. Individuals lived or died in response to how effectively they noticed aseptic approach and good normal nursing care of those that contracted the flu. We nonetheless need to depend on these primary strategies with a view to survive this pandemic. Fortuitously, we've some further safety by getting our COVID vaccination. Another merchandise in our arsenal to fight this explicit pandemic. Make the most of it.

Sooner or later, you may think about working an article on the flu pandemic in 1918 and the issues that have been executed to fight it, evaluating it to our present state of affairs. I'm certain there are some fascinating comparisons. We are able to study from historical past.

Fran Groves,

Stoney Creek