Don't mock the vaccine-hesitant. It's cruel.

There is a bit of a culture war going on with vaccines. The vaccinated and the unvaccinated are attacking each other. One doctor suggests we should go ahead and stop that. 

Don't mock the vaccine-hesitant

By Dr. Yoo Jung Kim

Mocking the misfortunes of the vaccine refusers minimizes their humanity and the suffering experienced by COVID-19 patients and their families. Moreover, COVID-19 schadenfreude is ultimately going to be counterproductive in convincing those who are vaccine reluctant, as demonstrated by studies that demonstrate people whose views are threatened by others become even more fixed in their beliefs.

Today's editorial cartoon 

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Recognize police suicides as deaths in the line of duty

Editorial Board 

D.C. police have never deemed a suicide as a line-of-duty death. But in court papers filed last month, Erin Smith argues that her husband's death was the direct result of the trauma he suffered defending the Capitol. The widow of Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood, who also battled that day at the Capitol and then died by suicide, has raised the same issue.

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This newsletter was compiled by Louie Villalobos