Vaccination best way to eradicate intrusions
This is a reminder to the very small minority of farmers, or rather, entrepreneurs as a recent politician renamed them, that I see participating in the various anti-vaccine events.
When you set the GPS on your sprayers this spring, be sure to allow a 10-foot chemical-free strip every 100 feet. It seems you think this is the way forward to eradicate an unwanted intrusion. You will still get a crop — just not quite what could have been with total coverage —and you can be sure the intrusion will be back with a vengeance in following years.
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Hopefully a government will be elected with enough backbone to ensure that when, and not if, the next virus appears, the citizens who have chosen to get vaccinated for this virus will remain at the front of the line for future vaccines.
Perhaps the next virus will not be so forgiving and the health care system will not be overwhelmed.
It is unfortunate that there are so many ill-informed, cowardly, unpatriotic and underemployed people in a civilized, educated society like ours.
I’m a retired roughneck; too embarrassed to call myself a farmer.
Lawrence Gutek,
Hendon, Sask.
