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To the Editor:
Re “Republicans Block Independent Commission on Jan. 6 Riot” (nytimes.com, May 28):
“I can’t imagine anyone voting against the establishing of a commission on the greatest assault since the Civil War on the Capitol,” President Biden said. Well, Mr. President, they did, and it’s about time for you to get tough!
Senate Republicans filibustered a bipartisan bill to create an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This proves once and for all that the filibuster doesn’t encourage bipartisan compromise. It impedes it.
As the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, said in a floor speech immediately after the vote, “Shame on the Republican Party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they’re afraid of Donald Trump.”
Richard A. French
Pasadena, Calif.
To the Editor:
The G.O.P., the alleged “law and order” party, blocks the formation of a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt at the Capitol.
This should send a strong message to all police officers across our country about how blatantly hypocritical the party really is. It has proved once and for all that it doesn’t care one iota about the men and women who have sworn to protect it or our citadel of democracy.
Richard Cohen
Delray Beach, Fla.
To the Editor:
After senators heard the anguish from the loved ones of the victims and yet most of the Republicans adamantly refused to launch an investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection, I finally understood how the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which took up to 300 Black lives and destroyed the Greenwood district, went uninvestigated for 80 years.
It’s sad that party politics trumps common decency and justice.
Paul L. Newman
Merion Station, Pa.
The Children of Gaza
To the Editor:
“They Were Just Children” (front-page photo montage and two International pages, May 28) is heartbreaking. Indeed, like all children, they were too young to die and much too young to be exploited by a Hamas leadership that values their deaths for propaganda purposes and not their lives as children and future contributors to a better world.
By launching rockets indiscriminately at Israel from locations near civilian areas, Gaza’s Hamas terrorist leaders demonstrate their willingness to sacrifice these children and their families.
My heart cries out in sorrow and anger at such a terrible world.
Michele Braun
Pound Ridge, N.Y.
The Virus and the Wuhan Lab: Was Trump Right?
To the Editor:
Re “President Orders Report in 90 Days on Virus Origins” (front page, May 27):
When President Donald Trump and his advisers called Covid the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan virus” and theorized that it had escaped from research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the mainstream media and Democrats harshly dismissed the ideas as xenophobic and a kooky conspiracy theory.
When Mr. Trump began the withdrawal of the U.S. from the World Health Organization because he believed that it was shielding China from legitimate scrutiny of its role in creating the pandemic and endangering the world, the same media criticized Mr. Trump, not the W.H.O. and China. Mr. Biden called the withdrawal wrongheaded.
Now that President Biden has ordered intelligence agencies to urgently investigate and report its findings on the origin of the virus and to explore whether it might have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan lab, it’s front-page news. Imagine that. The nation can never truly be united until the media gets its act together and plays the news straight on behalf of all Americans.
Dennis L. Breo
New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
To the Editor:
The United States should stop insisting that China allow outside investigations into the origin of the coronavirus. Whether the virus was transmitted through animals or escaped from the virology laboratory in Wuhan is now of little importance. We — and the Chinese — know that both are very possible and that we must work hard, now and in the future, to prevent each of these risks to our peoples.
Scientists in China and around the world have been cooperating amazingly and productively. We need this to continue. Outside efforts to look for possible Chinese laboratory errors are seen as an attack on Chinese sovereignty and credibility, and further poison U.S.-Chinese relations.
The worst case is that the Wuhan laboratory has been working to create bioweapons. Irritating the Chinese government is not the way to stop this.
Let us instead strive to bring this coronavirus under control, to increase efforts to prevent the spread of new pathogens from animals and laboratories, and, above all, to improve relations between China and the United States.
Paul Sorum
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
The writer is emeritus professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at Albany Medical College.
A Lottery in Ohio, to Lure the Unvaccinated
To the Editor:
Re “A Vaccine Lottery Can Work,” by Mike DeWine (Opinion guest essay, May 27):
I am a Democrat and an Ohio resident, and I scrambled in February to get vaccinated. I am very proud of how our Republican governor has led the fight against Covid in Ohio to protect our lives.
Despite opposition from elected officials in his own party, Governor DeWine put common sense and recommendations of knowledgeable scientists ahead of his political career. Because of our governor’s tough stance on continuing social restrictions, Ohio’s legislative bodies retaliated by diminishing his emergency powers.
All I can say is: “Governor DeWine, thank you for sticking to your convictions, thank you for keeping your priorities straight!”
Monique H. Posner
Shaker Heights, Ohio
To the Editor:
Re “Ohio Picks First Winner of Vax-a-Million Lottery to Encourage More Shots” (news article, May 27):
I find it more than reasonable, in fact a medical and moral necessity, to make an all-out effort to reach herd immunity with respect to the Covid virus. But I — and I’m sure many others like me who got vaccinated as soon as the vaccine was available — find it a bit galling that tax money is now being used to bribe people to get a vaccination that could save their lives.
I can’t help but wonder how this approach will affect a new threat or a new wave of a variation of the existing virus. Will people hold off on getting vaccinated until they have the possibility of getting paid for it?
Paul Tartaglia
Saco, Maine
Ultramarathoners Courted Danger
To the Editor:
Re “Endurance Sport Looks Inward After Tragedy” (news article, May 26): The tragedy of 21 ultramarathoners’ deaths in a race in China is a brutal lesson in personal preparedness and event-organizer responsibility.
Racers should be prepared for the forces of nature, and race organizers should, at the very least, respect weather forecasts. Extreme weather didn’t kill these marathoners. Disrespect for the mountains and a sense of denial and delusion that this could ever happen to them did.
No one ever said that racing ultras in the mountains is the same as running a marathon in New York. This should serve as a wake-up call to the ultramarathoning community.
Jon Heshka
Kamloops, British Columbia
The writer is an associate professor specializing in sports law at Thompson Rivers University.
Early Motherhood: ‘No Regrets’
To the Editor:
Re “Having Kids Early Is Hard. It’s Also Great,” by Elizabeth Bruenig (Sunday Review, May 9):
I became a mom at 26. I might as well have been teen mom in my upper-crust neighborhood of Washington, where I am frequently mistaken for the babysitter.
Now, a decade later, I just had my fourth, still a full year younger than the average age of a first-time mom at the hospital where I delivered.
I have no regrets. My career and sense of self have evolved positively with motherhood.
It’s time for elite society to evolve with young moms. Ms. Bruenig’s article was a needed reminder that women are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves the right age to become a mom and that young moms can flourish, too.
Ashley McGuire
Washington
Determined to Live to the End
To the Editor:
Re “Empowering Those Facing the I.C.U.” (Science Times, May 11):
As a potential terminally ill or severely disabled old person (aren’t we all?), I feel threatened by the view that life-prolonging interventions “lack dignity.” I doubt that many people would say that Stephen Hawking lacked dignity, but do you have to be a scientific genius not to get written off as lacking dignity if you need life support?
Saying such interventions lack dignity is cruelly bigoted against the severely disabled. It is particularly disturbing that a doctor, who has a professional duty to present alternatives impartially, expresses this biased and disparaging view.
“The one thing we don’t want is to carry on indefinitely,” another doctor says. What if that’s what the patient wants? Whose life is it anyway?
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Providence, R.I.
The writer is a professor of philosophy at Brown University.
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