Letters to the editor for Thursday Nov. 5 – The Register-Guard

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There are numerous reasons to remove Trump from office: corruption, dishonesty, enriching him and his family, fueling racial division and many more, but maybe none more egregious than his handling of public health:

In 2017 he fired Linda Quick, our CDC representative in Beijing, charged with letting us know about developing epidemics in China.

In 2018 he disbanded the White House-NSC pandemic team that Obama had assembled after two people in the U.S. died from Ebola.

And in 2019 he closed the CDC National Vaccine Program Office so that doctors now have no idea whether any vaccine will be safe in the long run.

This should land him in prison. The evidence cant be any clearer: He needs to be held responsible for 230,000 deaths, millions of infections and lost jobs.

Michael Young, Eugene

I had been away from Eugene/Springfield for about a year.As I drove into the area, I was shocked at what I was seeing.Both cities were void of any activity. There were no cars on the streets, no one was walking on the sidewalks and the businesses where all closed.

This was so strange.

I decided to go to my old neighborhood to visit with friends and ask them what was going on?As I drove though the residential area, I found the streets empty and the houses looking as if no one lived in them. Where was everyone?

I was getting scared and then I awoke from my dream and everything became clear. This week the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States equaled the population of Eugene/Springfield.

Dixie Huffman, Springfield

John Pinney unwisely advises trust in anonymous, invisible, unaccountable fact-checkers (Letters, Oct. 31). These are useful for alerting us not to truth but to what we are not allowed to know, consistently supporting the soporific fictions supplied by our billionaire-controlled print and broadcast news media while honest, reliable, detailed and well-documented online sources are increasingly censored by equally compromised billionaire tech giants.

In a recentwebinaron Julian Assange now deteriorating in a modern Tower of London prison rather than receiving the Nobel Peace Prize he deserves distinguished journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger described journalism as 100% propaganda and retired CIA Russia desk chief Ray McGovern identified our suffocating media censorship as a defining characteristic of fascism.

Our citizenship duties are not satisfied by biannual vote-casting for candidates marketed like fast food or SUVs. No responsible employer hiring for a vital position depends solely on applicant-constructed resumes or promises.Public figures are resourceful at concealment of facts we have a right to know and a duty to discover. Citizenship duties are daily.Turn off the TV and spend that same time searching out truth from many extraordinary books, online writers and broadcasters providing the best journalism of my lifetime.

Jack Dresser, Springfield

The New York Times article in The Register-Guard suggesting we, for all intents and purposes, cancel the holidays was telling. This latest bit of insanity from a media outlet confirms what most clear-thinking individuals already know: This is no longer about the health of the nation; it is about absolute power and control.

Are more government mandates in the mix? On Thanksgiving, can we expect to see "inspectors" randomly knocking on our doors because they saw too many cars in the driveway? The idea of having Thanksgiving dinner on Zoom or some other childish website is absurd. I really don't care that Dr. Fauci doesn't plan to see his grandchildren on the holiday. That's his choice. I will make my own decisions.

Raymond Moreno, Eugene

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