Tucson speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Sep. 24, 2021 | Local news

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Hospitals should
Change policies

Subject: the September 13 letter, “Thank you Anti-Vaxxer.”

Many thanks to the author for his letter. Readers attract for him and his wife.

I also experienced waiting in the emergency room on two different days, leaving after 18 hours and no reaction. The crowd there finally heard why we were waiting: no beds. The staff is overwhelmed, quits, no technicians, no way to deal with those who come in. “Sorry,” they said.

Why do we, the injured and sick, go through this without our own choice? You know. The number of unvaccinated COVID patients now requires scientific attention to make them healthy.

Hospital policy must change to care for the remaining staff and practice medicine for those who need it and are socially responsible. It is the crisis standard of nursing time, not surge time. Those who are not vaccinated to show COVID are given the lowest care priority, with the exception of children and religious exceptions. Non-COVID patients who need an intensive care unit will be given the beds. Those in need of heart, injury, and disease care come first, not least.

Disappointing
UA football loss

No words to describe how disappointing it was for UA to lose to NAU. Inexcusable! We’ve lost seasons since Dick Tomey was our coach. How do you expect to recruit quality players? How are you going to keep fans? I hope someone will come up with answers soon!

Need politically balanced districts

The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) is currently creating maps for the state and federal legislative counties. The creation of districts that strongly favor a political party leads to the election of extremists.

LD 11, where Republicans far outnumber Democrats, has repeatedly sent extremists into the Arizona legislature. QAnon supporter, Rep. Mark Finchem, is a Trump-backed supporter of Big Lie and “fraud”. Recently resigned MP Bret Roberts promoted legislation to prevent private companies from introducing COVID safety requirements in the workplace. Senator Vince Leach is promoting public funding for private schools, although Arizona residents oppose such programs. Leach also brags about passing a tax cut that will benefit the top 1% greatly at the expense of the 99%.

With the Republicans of LD 11 far outnumbering the Democrats, these MPs can be elected and re-elected without considering the wishes of anyone but their far-right base. As a result, the voters of the LD 11 are not represented fairly. The IRC must avoid creating districts like LD 11.

Authoritarianism

Subject: the letter of September 19, “Authoritarianism looks familiar to me.”

I find myself in violent agreement. Although veiled, I assume that the real issue is the executive power of the president.

If that’s correct, I must point out that Congress and the judiciary are reviewing the executive power of the president:

1. Congress can pass a law invalidating the by-law and overriding the President’s veto.

2. The Supreme Court can declare the implementing regulation unconstitutional.

Since politicians listen to the whims and desires of their supporters, our system has inherent flaws. If you’re fascinated by train wrecks, read President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. For details, I recommend everyone read “They Called Us Enemy” by George Takei.

I think whether you support the concept of Orders by Executive Authority depends almost entirely on whether your party affiliation is that of the President. The last president issued 220 such orders, Biden 61.

Free to choose

Re: Sep 12 article “To curb abortion, support women at work and in their lives.”

Since I firmly believe that a well-considered philosophy is of vital importance in our troubled world, I find that the smooth statement “fetus and embryo are separate entities from the pregnant woman” has no objective basis.

This dichotomous view, which is largely non-secular and taken as given and absolute, is the root of the abortion conflict. It can be seen as a “biological fact” that every living being is the end of a long chain of life transmissions that originate from a common origin, which shows that an origin other than this does not, strictly speaking, begin, but only ends.

The definition of pregnancy as two separate entities appears necessarily arbitrary in this context. Philosophical honesty demands that we admit to ourselves that the human condition, especially this clearly feminine phenomenon that unites and continues this condition, is not predefined.

Just as all of humanity can be viewed as a unit, pregnancy could also be. To paraphrase a famous sentiment, we are doomed to choose. Shouldn’t we then also be free to do so?

How to get the profit

Subject: the September 20th article, “Losses against Jacks cause more pity than pain.”

There’s no doubt the defense will have to take care of Arizona this year and that means we don’t have to allow more than 13 points per game to give our team a chance to win. We need defensive players with “giant chips” on their shoulders who play over their heads and out of their heads. You have to do it in every game, with die-hard, hard-hitting Chuck Cecil, Byron Evans and Tedy Bruschi who take turns attacking in defense so that when one group is tired, the next one comes to “give ’em hell.”

The reality is that the “flexbone” needs to be built in as part of your attack and deployed in a situational manner. Let the other team beat us. This year it has to be the defensive first and erase the offensive in intelligent field position football. I’m not apathetic about Arizona football, 0-15 is old news, build a powerful, solid defense, the “W’s” are to come.

UA loss to NAU

There is a saying in Japan that says, “Three years on the rock”. The story goes that a Buddhist monk came to Osaka from South Korea and sat in the lotus position on a rock for three years. That means you have to have three years before you are able to judge or criticize.

One of my superiors in Japan said he didn’t want to hear my opinion until I was “on the rock” for three years! So forget about NAU, forget about shame and forget about this season.

Let’s be patient and realize that the magic doesn’t happen overnight. We still have to pay a lot of fees to get where we want to go. If we can see three years of continuous improvement it would have been better coaching than we have had in a while.

GOP and Death panels

I’m old enough to remember when the GOP tried to scare everyone by saying Obama would have “death tablets” if the Affordable Care Act were passed.

Guess what? We now have the equivalent of “death tablets” in Idaho, where the health system has been so overwhelmed by COVID cases that supplies have had to be rationed.

Why is that happend? Because the GOP has made wearing masks and vaccinating a political issue.

So, thank you very much, GOP. We now have the death tablets that you have wished for so badly.

Marijuana tax

Subject: the September 20 article, “AZ Pot In Tax Revenue Over $ 115 Million.”

I was just reading the article on the Star about where the taxpayers’ money goes from marijuana sales and was shocked to learn that none of the money is going to public education in Arizona. No wonder our public school system is missing!

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