LETTER: Legislative committee won’t extend vaccine mandate

I work with large involvement Bill Dentzer’s nonfiction successful the Dec. 21 Review-Journal, “Vote kills mandate extension: Legislative sheet deadlocks 6-6.” The communicative revealed however the sheet failed to widen expiring COVID-19 vaccination mandates for assemblage students and authorities corrections and attraction installation workers. These groups are successful environments that favour the likelihood of COVID infections and dispersed of disease, making these radical much susceptible and overmuch little safe.

If the comments made by authorities Sen. Joe Hardy summarize the reasoning of the Legislative Commission’s Republican members, they downplay the “current” seriousness of the concern and the interaction of the determination connected people’s lives. Its interaction is overmuch broader due to the fact that it tin impact different students, workers, families and their communities by spreading virus.

The extremity is to forestall “most people” from getting this virus. Sen. Hardy mentions a “permanent regularisation successful a changing satellite and changing environment” arsenic the crushed for not passing this important legislation. I punctual him and his colleagues that, until rather recently, the delta variant was continuing to sicken, hospitalize and termination affected individuals. The omicron variant, which has go the ascendant strain and is much contagious, inactive appears to beryllium responsive to afloat vaccination and booster immunizations. It has surely changed the reasoning astir however assertive we indispensable beryllium successful implementing vaccination and different known information measures.

The situation “is” changing but for the worse. Moreover, though support of the connection would correspond a “permanent regulation,” it could beryllium aboriginal changed to bespeak however good Nevada is capable to woody with this dreadful virus.