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THE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER EMERGENCY

our impressively thorough article, “The Public Health Officer Emergency” (October 2021), was distressing. The defiant attitudes and mean-spirited tactics of the vociferous opponents of professional medical guidance concerning the COVID-19 epidemic are chilling. They apparently do not care about protection of their fellow citizens, their own personal vulnerability or the tragic impacts on overwhelmed medical facilities. It seems so simple. Mask up and get vaccinated as many millions of us have willingly done, and we can get out

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