OPINIONS: Here’s one more

Thanks for printing Dr. Burnett’s and Sheriff Wheeler’s letters on April 8. As a former firefighter/paramedic (38/30 years), I appreciate the Sheriff’s response. Having worked through the AIDS crisis era, as well as swine/bird/Zika, etc., as well as regular influenza, and everything else, I found the doctor’s comment interesting. No one that I ever worked with in the health care field ever displayed such a self-righteous attitude. The good DR. and ALL of his co-workers should take comfort that some people, due to their behavior have relinquished their claim to treatment because he may disagree with that behavior? Says he? Please re-think and rescind that thinking, or what? And by whom?

AIDS patients brought it on themselves, COPD patients from smoking, cardiovascular issues from bad diet and no exercise, got a mosquito bite and Zika while camping? Had some accident and suffered trauma? You should have seen it coming! Shame on all of you! No treatment for you!

Man, I sure feel better about me. Wow. Glad I worked in a system where no co-workers of mine ever expressed this thinking.

ROBERT B. SMITH

Hayden