Prescription Filled
I can’t believe what I just read on your Letters Page: The unsolicited health advice that we should let our children get measles because … it builds resistance? (June 18, 2025) Tell that to the parents who believed RFK Jr.’s wormy advice to avoid vaccinations, only to hospitalize them or, in at least two cases, bury them. Does the “doctor” have a “common sense” folk remedy for flu, Covid and AIDS? Back in the good ol’ days, Americans also smoked heavily, every day, and most of them paid for it with serious consequences above and below ground. Does she also suggest drinking bleach to cure Covid, as the “stable genius” infamously suggested? Does she want to bring back asbestos, as he recently announced? Mis/disinformation like this is more than just “old-timey craziness,” as you rightly said, it’s downright dangerous, so my Rx for the health and safety of mankind is to please keep your f–king unwanted Looney Tunes advice to yourself!
Bob Canning
Petaluma
Truth in Editorializing
I appreciate the editorial comment about the “Measly Measles” letter to the editor (June 18, 2025, re: “old-timey craziness”). Whenever there is disinformation being printed or spoken, others need to state the truth/facts. Otherwise it can spread, and others will be convinced, leading to dire consequences. Please keep up the good work.
Alan Murakami
Sebastopol
Burger Burn
It appears to me you omitted the stockyard and slaughterhouse chapters in your “History of the Hamburger” article (June 18).
D. A. Bishop
Sebastopol
