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Disagrees with recent letter to the editor

To the editor: I write today to respond to a Sept. 20 Morning Journal letter to the editor in which the writer claims to be “amazed” at those individuals who are afraid to vaccinate. The “amazed” writer shockingly suggests that hospitals should start barring patients who do not display their vaccination papers. There are a number of logical and ideological problems with this line of thinking. A person who is afraid of vaccination is not “choosing” death; this is a fallacious oversimplification of their position. The elitist perspective that a person only deserves medical ...

We need your help with healthcare facilities

To the editor: Northeast Ohio is experiencing a critical surge of patients in our healthcare facilities, with hospitals, emergency departments and urgent care centers all seeing high numbers of patients. Our hospitals stand ready to care for patients. However we are facing a shortage of available inpatient beds and significantly longer than usual wait times for emergency and urgent care. There are several factors leading to this situation, most notably the rising number of people with COVID-19 who have a higher degree of illness than we have seen previously and are requiring ...

Responds to recent letter to the editor

To the editor: This letter is in response to Judith Wootten’s letter of September 20. Judith is very upset that Tim Novak has chosen to NOT get the COVID vaccine. Tim is a family man, a local business owner a elected township official and a member of the Columbiana County Health Dept. Advisory Council. It seems like he is a responsible and respected member of the community. Many people including myself fully support Tim and everyone’s right to choose to either receive or not receive the COVID vaccine. Even with the vaccine you can still get COVID and still spread the virus. ...

And another response to the same letter

To the editor: My letter is in response to a letter to the editor sent by Judith Wootten, published September 20. She wanted us all to know that she was “amazed” at comments made at a county health department meeting by an advisory board member, Tim Novak, who spoke out in concern of potential vaccine mandates.  I believe the word Wootten was looking for was: insulted. That’s her actual problem with Mr. Novak, since he didn’t regurgitate the same asinine rhetoric that she has been programmed with over the last 18 months. Her closing paragraph stated: “If people choose not to ...

An open letter to the residents of Lisbon

As Chief of the Lisbon Police Department, I want you to know that I am proud of my officers and my department. They care about this town and those who live in it. They take their oath “to serve and protect” seriously. For this reason, in 2019 I asked to meet with acting Mayor Gallo, village council and Fiscal Officer Tracey Wonner to discuss ways the village could generate more money. We were paying our officers so little that they were leaving Lisbon and taking better paying jobs on surrounding forces. In our meeting, we talked about ways to have the money to increase wages for ...

Amazed by County Health Department story

To the editor: I was amazed to read the story about the Columbiana (County) Health Department Advisory Council meeting in Tuesday’s (September 14) Salem News. A member of this group, Tim Novak, is quoted as saying that I should not be angry with him if he doesn’t get the COVID vaccination because he’s not angry with me because I received it. If I get vaccinated, I cannot hurt him. If he does NOT get vaccinated, he can hurt me and many others in the general population by spreading COVID. If he contracts the virus, he might need to be hospitalized on a ventilator. If he had the ...