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Careful Consideration Needed For Mask Use

To The Reader’s Forum: I want to thank The Post-Journal for including Michelle Malkin’s articles. I appreciate her courage to speak truth about the violence being allowed in our country and the freedoms being taken from non-violent citizens. Mask wearing is a very controversial subject right now. There are times when wearing a mask is advisable, such as when working around the sick or when one has to be in public when ill. However, there are also negative consequences to wearing a mask. Controlled studies were conducted in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019, and even in ...

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Some People Are Fools To The Reader’s Forum: If you want evidence that people are fools, the Jamestown sports nickname controversy is your perfect example. Raids are not nice things whether conducted by Senecas, Vikings, or people of any skin color. But no one is the least upset about the “raider” part of the name. Emotionally aroused sports fans aren’t strong on philosophy or complex reasoning and sports aren’t about social justice, everybody achieving the same outcome. Sports are about winning and losing, defeat and victory, us and them. They are a toy world of make ...

Framed In Pink Bowling Over Cancer Committee Thanks Community

To The Reader’s Forum: On behalf of the Framed in Pink Bowling Over Cancer Committee, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our Community for the support you have given our charity. As many of you are aware our charitable event supports local breast cancer care at UPMC Chautauqua. Over the last seven years we have raised over $50,000, and have been able to establish an endowment fund (Framed in Pink) at WCA Foundation to assist breast cancer patients with state of the art equipment at UPMC Chautauqua. Our event is held every year during breast cancer month in October. ...

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‘Venom’ Suppression May Lead To Exclusion To the Reader’s Forum: I agree with Barbara Bumsted in her July 30th Letter to the Editor when she said that The Post-Journal does a good job of printing editorial columns of many differing opinions. However, explicit in our right to freedom of speech is the freedom to choose what to read or not read. I fear that to suppress the “venom” may lead to exclusion of all opinions. A good writer causes the reader to think, and to engage in intellectual debate and fact research when opinions differ. I believe it is the unique privilege ...

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If We Can Shop, We Can Go Vote To The Reader’s Forum: If we can shop in person at places like Walmart, we can vote in person. If a large group can gather to eulogize a fine American like John Lewis, we can can gather to exercise our civic duty. If we can “Laugh Safe” at the Comedy Center, we can vote safe at our polling site. It’s that simple. Erika Myers Jamestown

Kudos To Renate Bob — Well Said

To The Reader’s Forum: I want thank Renate Bob for her comments on mask wearing. I appreciate all she said — and have been thinking but never wrote down. I also am disheartened that The Post-Journal continues to print Michelle Malken’s column. I understand freedom of speech and I truly believe it is important to read (and hear) opinions contrary to my own — and for the most part, The Post-Journal does a good job of printing both. But I find that I cannot read something as venomous as her column. I don’t think The Post-Journal is doing itself (or the community for ...