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Re: Jan. 3 article, "Abbottasks feds for more testing sites, treatments"

So, after doing everything in his power to work against the efforts of President Biden, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,and any other federal entity that is trying to mitigate and control the COVID variants, now Gov.Abbott is asking for more testing sites and monoclonal antibodies.

He is against the federal government until he needs them after his own efforts have increased the health emergencies in Texas. His hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

Elizabeth Boyt, Austin

A major plot element of "Spider-Man: No Way Home,"which is top of the box office right now, is the multiverse. In reading the news as of late, I am beginning to wonder if we have somehow been transported into another political reality.

In a tweet, Sen. Rand Paul has accused Democrats of stealing elections by encouraging people to vote in a legally valid way, and during his remarks at a Turning Points USA conference Donald Trump Jr. repudiateda major tenet of Christianity by rejecting Christs decree to turn the other cheek.

The Democrats have purloined the presidency by following the rules? The party associated with the conservative Christian vote is now renouncing the teaching of the man who founded the very religion? The irrationality of these arguments is strikingly bizarre, but it is incomprehensible that the GOP has fallen in lockstep with such demagogical leadership.

Mark Hinshaw, Austin

Why is it that we are allowing the unvaccinated to overwhelm our health care facilities and staff?

I just read an article about a man in Iowa who died because he was unable to get a room in the hospital best suited to provide the care he needed. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, nearly 82% of people hospitalized in Iowa for COVID-19 were not fully vaccinated, including 88% of those in intensive care.Granted, this is but a single instance, but I'll eat my hat if there aren't many more similar stories of sadness.

In my view, folks who refuse the vaccine should be denied scarce health care resources. They made their own decision, and should be prideful when they beat the virus at home, by themselves.

TimMurphy, Austin

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