Opinion: Colorado pediatricians beg students and teachers to wear masks

Pediatricians measurement successful connected vaccines, masks for children

Re: “No 1 attack to look coverings,” Aug. 8 quality story

COVID-19 vaccines prevention kids’ lives. As a pediatrician successful Denver, I saw a 15-year-old hospitalized aft a bosom attack, a 16-year-old with life-threatening pneumonia, and a 1-month-old hospitalized for respective days — each of whom were successful cleanable wellness earlier they got COVID.

Kids are not harmless from COVID. They person symptoms. They transmit the microorganism to different people. They tin person life-threatening conditions resulting from COVID. The Pfizer vaccine has been good studied, approved by the FDA, and is precise harmless for children.

This vaccine has been fixed to millions of children successful the U.S. and is precise effective. The Pfizer vaccine is wide disposable and escaped for each children careless of security coverage. There is nary impervious that this vaccine has semipermanent broadside effects oregon causes kids to person fertility
issues.

This vaccine volition surely not springiness your kid COVID. Vaccinating your kid protects them, their friends, and the adults they interact with. Vaccination is the champion instrumentality to getting kids backmost to mean life. Do not wait; get your children who are 12 and older vaccinated today.

Yeshai Dollin, Denver

A caller nonfiction successful The Post quotes a section parent who opposes mandatory masks, citing the value of societal enactment without hindrance. I reason masks are really the champion mode to proceed the vitally important societal interactions that hap successful the schoolhouse mounting portion ensuring the wellness and information of each students and teachers.

Without masks, the delta variant could origin predominant absences from schoolhouse and perchance the indispensable pivot to region learning, frankincense eliminating immoderate accidental for the interactions everyone craves aft a virtual 2020 schoolhouse year. Therefore, masks are, successful fact, not a hindrance but a adjuvant instrumentality successful the dilatory progression towards normalcy.

I americium a section pediatrician who sees firsthand the interaction of COVID-19 connected children’s lives each day. I spot families grapple with managing masking for their children who are not yet eligible for vaccination. I spot them struggling betwixt the tendency for in-person learning and the interest for their child’s safety. And I, too, interest astir safety, fixed the precise existent hazard of terrible illness successful kids.

I commend Denver Public Schools for implementing a mandatory disguise regularisation for children who are excessively young to get the vaccine. Eliminating the grey country of individualized decisions creates clarity, alleviates stressors for families, and promotes a harmless environment. We promote different section schoolhouse districts and counties to prosecute a akin program and for families to telephone them out, pursuing the value of continuing socialization and in-person acquisition portion keeping our kids safe.

Erin Guth, Denver

Creating a harmless schoolhouse situation successful the epoch of COVID-19 is paramount. Children nether property 12 are not yet eligible for vaccinations, and lone immoderate children ages 12+ are afloat vaccinated. Unvaccinated kids are some susceptible to the illness themselves and susceptible of spreading it to others, particularly the contagious delta variant.

As a pediatrician moving successful the Denver area, I person seen implicit and implicit again the load of virtual schoolhouse — the exertion was challenging, kids who had ever done good struggled, high-quality supervision was impossible. Social connections were absent, worsening intelligence wellness problems for kids of each background. The connection from past twelvemonth is clear: Kids request to be schoolhouse successful person.

However, we request to marque definite kids and teachers are safe. Masks assistance support kids successful schoolhouse by preventing the dispersed of disease. A azygous disguise argumentation besides helps to support children from isolation and bullying from different kids for their prime either to deterioration oregon not to deterioration a mask. I applaud Denver and Jefferson County for mandating masks successful schools, and I impulse different Colorado schoolhouse districts to bash the same.

Margaret Van Der Bosch, Denver

Make masks and vaccines the existent warfare effort

Our household is blessed to person a subordinate who is of the “greatest generation” — that procreation that experienced the Great Depression and World War II. She told maine of the sacrifices citizens made for the extortion of each during the warfare by complying with proviso rations and, connected the East Coast, not turning the lights connected astatine nighttime to trim the chances of force attack. We relied connected proposal from subject leaders.

Nobody was moving astir yelling, “my state is gone; I garbage to bash it!”

We present person different challenging time. Simple logic would pb america to question the proposal of epidemiologists and not narcissistic politicians connected the taxable of illness transmission.

The grounds is that by getting vaccinated and simply wearing a disguise for the well-being of all, we tin stomp retired the force onslaught of this generation.

As it was successful World War II, arsenic it is now, agreed we stand, divided we fall.

Dean Anderson, Evergreen

Re: “Gov. Jared Polis should necessitate masks successful schools,” Aug. 10 commentary

Thank you for publishing the outstanding file by Kyle Mullica, who intelligibly and cogently makes a lawsuit for a statewide argumentation requiring masks for each unit and students successful Colorado schools. The subject is progressively wide that everyone, including those of america who are afloat vaccinated, tin beryllium carriers of the highly contagious Delta variant and that masks supply the champion extortion for the unvaccinated — which includes each children nether property 12 and a ample percent of students implicit 12. Places wherever masks are not required are already seeing a important summation successful COVID-19 among children, which volition disrupt the schools and tin person superior semipermanent consequences. Gov. Polis, delight workout beardown enactment by taking enactment present to support our children and forestall an exponential outbreak of the microorganism successful Colorado’s schools and communities!

Karen and Frank Timmons, Westminster

While I consciousness the CDC has been rather wide successful their communications, galore are not wide connected the information.

The COVID vaccines person varying percentages of effectiveness and the numbers often stated are their effectiveness astatine preventing superior illness, hospitalization, and/or death. They bash not person the aforesaid effectiveness percentages against being infected with COVID.

What is rather wide from existent information is that vaccinated persons tin beryllium — and person been — infected with COVID, particularly with the delta variant.

Masking up is inactive a large thought to assistance dilatory the dispersed of this disease. When the subject and information change, the recommendations change. You aren’t being lied to. Things alteration and evolve.

Tom Maynor, Highland Ranch

So those opposing mandatory masks and vaccinations successful schoolhouse reason that COVID doesn’t impact kids? Well, it does now. How astir 96,000 confirmed COVID infections for those 0-17 reported the week ending Aug. 5?

I’m nary aesculapian expert, but I kinda fishy the trauma experienced by children enactment into a COVID corruption ward wherever they are separated from astir of their household and cared for by strangers wearing alien spacesuits might, conscionable might, beryllium a tad much traumatic than getting the accidental to deterioration a superhero oregon My Little Pony disguise with their classmates successful school.

Robert C. Marshall, Highlands Ranch

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Re: “No 1 attack to look coverings,” Aug. 8 quality story

There is lone 1 question to inquire those hesitant to person a vaccine oregon o.k. it for their children: If this COVID microorganism caused pustules to make connected the extracurricular and origin scars connected your oregon your children’s look and bodies, however agelong would it instrumentality you to get that shot? Well, those scars whitethorn beryllium connected the inside. We can’t spot them, but they are there. Masks are portion of that prevention, contempt a 5-year-old yelling into a megaphone “my body, my choice” connected the Sunday beforehand page. I cannot basal the thought of her getting COVID.

Carol E. Morse, Golden

DIA’s Final Approach restrooms are unfastened to public

Re: “DIA waiting country needs to supply for quality breaks,” August 1 missive to the editor

In effect to the caller letter, we privation to beryllium definite our customers and visitors cognize that restrooms and facilities are so unfastened to the nationalist and not conscionable paying customers. Final Approach was intended to supply those waiting for household and friends entree to restrooms, nutrient and adjacent formation information.

We person reminded our concern partners wrong Final Approach
that the gathering and facilities indispensable beryllium disposable to the nationalist and the signs volition beryllium removed immediately.

Thank you to the idiosyncratic who brought this to our attention. We anticipation they consciousness much invited the adjacent clip they sojourn our facilities.

Alex Renteria, Denver

Editor’s note: Renteria is simply a nationalist accusation serviceman serving Denver International Airport.

Gasping for aerial and answers

I was calved successful Erie, Kansas, successful 1933, and my puerility was spent successful what is present known arsenic the Dust Bowl. The particulate blew successful from the west, immoderate of it from Eastern Colorado.

I grew up with each kinds of problems with my lungs. For immoderate clip I person been ripening during status successful Denver, a spot I hereby dub the Haze Bowl. The smoke, similar the dust, comes from the West.

The Dust Bowl had to beryllium endured during the harsh conditions of the Great Depression, but present I americium surviving healthfully during the Great Pandemic. Thank goodness for my 2 vaccinations.

Phillip K. Tompkins, Denver

Dear President Biden,

Please utilize our resources to combat and forestall wood occurrence damage. Here we are successful Denver, a 1000 miles distant from California fires, and we are encouraged not to spell extracurricular due to the fact that of the resulting harmful smoke.

My question is, what tin the national authorities bash to assistance enactment these fires out? Can we usage the nationalist defender and subject to assistance successful extinguishing these fires that are choking us?

After the past mates of years of drought and vigor and the likelihood of much seasons of disastrous upwind to come, present is the clip to travel up with a national strategy to incorporate these fires and inactive the root of
suffocation.

Mike Gallagher, Centennial

As I constitute this, extracurricular my model astatine my flat analyzable successful Louisville, workers are lying down caller asphalt. In the midst of our aerial prime crisis, they are doing this foul enactment — enactment that is obscurity adjacent to an exigency and enactment that easy could beryllium postponed. All astir the country roadworthy crews are astatine work.

What is incorrect with this picture?
We are successful superior signifier present and I would fishy astir of this enactment is not an emergency. How tin things amended erstwhile operation and roadworthy enactment continue. We request to halt this march of folly. When are we going to learn?

Walter Bonora, Louisville

Re: We request a national c interest with currency backmost for each American,” August 8 commentary

Now we person a large thought for cutting emissions, overmuch needed arsenic wildfires rage and Denver chokes connected fume — a c taxation that increases each twelvemonth gets everyone moving.

Individuals bargain cars and appliances that tally connected energy alternatively of lipid and gas. Grocery stores banal locally grown foods alternatively of strawberries from Mexico. Architects plan buildings to conserve energy. Investors favour companies with plans to trim their c emissions. We volition each usage little of what costs much portion spending our dividend checks. This program is simply a winner.

Phil Nelson, Golden

Diner grateful for vaccine requirement

Re: “More Denver restaurants to necessitate vaccinations,” Aug. 11 quality story

I wanted to convey Denver restaurateur Frank Bonanno for the courageousness and enactment helium has shown to assistance marque america much harmless and capable to devour astatine his restaurants by asking/requiring each of his employees and customers beryllium vaccinated.

It is simply a elemental measurement that is overmuch needed close present (given the ace catchy delta variant) but volition surely beryllium attacked by boogeymen, state fighters, etc.

I look guardant to bringing my household successful to devour astatine 1 his spots soon and promote different vaxxed folks to bash the aforesaid and amusement support. Thanks, Frank.

Matthew Dodd Cheroutes, Denver

Frustrated by Denver officers’ settlement

Re: “Fired officers person $1.1M,” Aug. 12 quality story

I americium often angered by the news, but this greeting I was perfectly disgusted. Officers Devin Sparks and Randy Murr locomotion distant with a immense fiscal colony — 61 times what the unfortunate of their beating received.

This is expected to beryllium justice?

I suggest they springiness their colony to their victim, Michael DeHerrera. Do either of them person a conscience?

Kathy Derrick, Denver

A way for the mudslides arsenic much are definite to come

A speedy glimpse astatine the root of the disastrous mudslide successful Glenwood Canyon shows that mud and stone volition proceed to determination down astatine each dense rain. If the factual and asphalt roadway could not clasp it back, oversized sandbags surely won’t.

Many of the boulders which came down were bigger by acold than the sandbags.

Instead of trying to dam aboriginal slides, we should span the gulley truthful slides tin walk freely nether the roadworthy without taking retired span supports– nary halfway columns, and with generous width and tallness to accommodate the largest predicted mudslides.

The river, and perchance the railroad, would inactive person to beryllium cleaned up, but the roadworthy would beryllium intact.

Anika Livo, Lakewood

The solution to the East/West corridor proscription way is not conscionable amended roads oregon routes due to the fact that destructive fires and floods are our aboriginal owed to clime alteration denial and mediocre Western Slope enactment implicit decades.

It is futile to deliberation we tin fool Mother Nature anymore. Our aboriginal could beryllium accelerated electrical trains. It could beryllium an electrical grid that is designed with distributive vigor sources to easy stock powerfulness with the predictable determination outages successful our future.

We tin not physique backmost amended until we look our relation successful the basal origin of economical chaos owed to destructive upwind events. We person wasted invaluable time.

Tanya Travis, Grand Junction

Cell operation brings darkness

Re: “New “small” compartment operation looms ample successful beforehand yard,” Aug. 10 missive to the editor

I wholly hold with the missive concerning the Xcel compartment tower. They took retired the thoroughfare airy crossed from my location and enactment their operation successful without immoderate announcement to the neighborhood. Now that the country is transportation achromatic astatine night, we person seen an summation successful car break-ins and motorscooter thefts. I person written to our metropolis assembly representative, and helium said it is Xcel’s work to enactment a airy connected their tower. That was implicit six months ago, and to date, thing from them — but their monthly bill.

Dennis Devore, Denver

Stuck connected the backmost burner

As an biology engineer, I person watched the U.S. languish for decades successful our inability to power ozone aerial contamination fully. We are making analogous mistakes with clime change. We support resetting the clip bar, archetypal with the Montreal Protocol 34 years agone and present with the Paris Climate Accord. These agreements are similar New Year’s resolutions: meaningful erstwhile acceptable arsenic interior expectations, yet astir radical wantonness them precise accelerated erstwhile an outer anticipation arises.

Hopefully, President Joe Biden’s infrastructure program volition commencement to laic the needed groundwork for transforming our vigor economy. However, from my perspective, it’s conscionable plain communal consciousness that a terms connected c is needed arsenic a complementary approach. Carbon pricing volition instrumentality america beyond “resolutions.” It volition thrust meaningful advancement done method innovations that volition not prime winners and losers and tin maintain, if not, stimulate our economy.

Ron Dickson, Fort Collins

It’s a clime situation astatine this constituent not conscionable clime change

Re: “An aerial of uncertainty,” Aug. 10 quality story

To Bruce Finely, convey you truthful overmuch for penning this Denver Post article. I americium passionate astir making efforts to assistance combat clime change. I person asthma and this summertime has been precise difficult, and I unluckily person needed to bounds my clip outside.

I powerfully hold that we request to marque important changes accelerated oregon we volition proceed to spot harsh surviving environments. I americium acrophobic for our aboriginal and aboriginal generations.

The satellite is changing close earlier our eyes and I anticipation that these terrible upwind patterns amusement everyone the urgency we request to conquer the clime crisis. Thank you again for speaking retired connected the clime crisis, we cannot spend different twelvemonth of silence. Please proceed to constitute astir the clime crisis. We request to marque everyone aware.

Paige Hoholik, Denver

Getting frightened astir our climate? It’s not clime alteration it’s a clime crisis.

We request ample standard change. Composting, electrical cars, recycling are not enough. We request to code argumentation for the clime situation now. It is the lone mode left.

Call your senators and representatives and archer them you privation policies that volition code our clime crisis.

Carbon taxation and dividend is simply a argumentation that economist enactment and successful tandem with infrastructure volition spell on mode to getting our clime stable.

Susan Riederer, Denver

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