During this pandemic, I think we have all realized how important having our schools and businesses open is to both the mental and fiscal health of our families and our community. We rely on the school system to not only educate our children, but also for child care.
We have two children in Louisa County Public Schools, run a small business out of our home, and work in a locally owned business in the town of Louisa. Last year was difficult both financially and mentally for our family. Since businesses and schools have opened we are all much happier and our income has quadrupled. This has been made possible by Governor Northam.
Thank you, governor, for taking a strong stand to combat the spread of Covid. If it weren’t for the mask and vaccination mandates, my children would not be in school, and our household would barely be able to make ends meet. Masks and vaccines make a huge difference in combating the spread of Covid. Northam is following the CDC recommendations; he is keeping our families safe and our economy open.
When I look at some of the states without mask mandates, and see many school districts closing as soon as they opened this fall as children became ill, I know that Virginia is doing the right thing. In each case, it has been the governor of the state who has made the difference. We have a choice in this election. We can continue these forward-thinking policies and keep our schools and businesses open by voting for Terry McAuliffe for governor, or we can return to the surging pandemic.
McAuliffe’s opponent, Glenn Youngkin, believes we should continue to mandate vaccinations for measles, mumps, and rubella. Why not for Covid? His position is contradictory and dangerous. Vaccine mandates work. Similar ones have been used frequently in our country’s history to combat the spread of disease.
We have the ability to protect our children and keep our economy open. Voting for Terry McAuliffe just makes sense.
Thank you,
Sara Macel
Louisa
This letter was previously published in the latest edition of the Central Virginian newspaper and is reprinted here with the author’s permission.