I’m recently recovering from back-to-back cancer in 2019, with twice the treatment and twice the recovery time.
I was intensely eager to re-enter the world in 2020, but COVID hit and I again became locked away.
The vaccine is seen by me, and so many others, as the chance to live again with however much time treatment has given. Every day locked away is a loss and a waste felt to the very soul.
If the vaccine “plan” had been age-based from the beginning, then so be it. But to have it so close then coldly taken away should be the definition of cold indifference and gross humanity.
Patrick Chandler
Portland
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