Letter to the Editor (The Chronicle): COVID Vaccines Rewrite the Odds for the Pandemic

"Portrait of a Man Writing in his Study" by Gustave Caillebotte, 1885.

In which I explain that COVID-19 vaccines are good because they reduce the odds bad COVID outcomes: https://www.chronline.com/stories/letter-to-the-editor-daydreaming-about-changes-at-the-chronicle,269944?. This was published in The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington), September 17, 2021.

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Thanks especially to my grandparents’ generation, we’ve beaten smallpox, measles, and many others. Smallpox was an absolute monster, and measles is much, much more infectious than even the delta variant of COVID. But thanks to vaccines, smallpox was eradicated in 1977 and measles outbreaks are rare today.

We can do it again, but only if we seize our opportunities to rewrite the odds.

Letter to the Editor (The Chronicle): COVID-19 Vaccines are Safe and Effective

"Portrait of a Man Writing in his Study" by Gustave Caillebotte, 1885.

In which I praise COVID-19 vaccines because they work: https://www.chronline.com/stories/letter-to-the-editor-in-rotten-pandemic-vaccine-is-a-rare-win,272532?. This was published in The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington), September 13, 2021.

Letter to the Editor (The Chronicle): How I'd Run a Newspaper

"Portrait of a Man Writing in his Study" by Gustave Caillebotte, 1885.

In which I cheerfully grumble about the direction of local journalism: https://www.chronline.com/stories/letter-to-the-editor-daydreaming-about-changes-at-the-chronicle,269944?. This was published in The Chronicle (Centralia, WA), July 30, 2021.