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Letters: Trump blamed for drug shortage, Jaguars rapped for not showing for national anthem

Times-Union readers

President is responsible for shortage

of drug and mail delivery problems

I am a patient with Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease. I need  hydroxychloroquine. This medicine also is for people with rheumatoid arthritis and Lupus. But I am unable to obtain it thanks to President Donald Trump.

I have been unable to function because I have not had my medicine in over a week. I use a military mail service and, thanks to Trump slowing the mail, it has not been delivered.

No one has this medicine in stock. People are suffering and dying because of him. 

Theresa Wilyoung, St. Augustine

Shame on the Jaguars for not

taking field for national anthem

I can't believe the Jacksonville Jaguars didn't come on the field for the national anthem two days after the 19th anniversary of 9/11. 

They disrespected over 2,800 lives including 343 firefighters (including a chaplain and two paramedics) of the New York Fire Department, 37 police officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, 23 police officers of the NYPD, eight Emts and paramedics from private emergency medical services,and 1 patrolman form the NY fire patrol. 

There were 75 firehouses in which at least one member was killed. The FDNY also lost its department chief, first deputy commissioner, one of its marshals, one of it chaplains as well as other administrative specialty personnel. 

My biological father was a B17 pilot who was shot down over Germany, he lost his life for his country. 

My Dad was an engineer on a B25 that crashed three times. He was given a medal for swimming back to the downed plane to rescue one of his crew. Thank God he made it home.

My son is a retired battalion chief here in Jacksonville.

So, I take the Jaguars' disrespect personally. Who among them has ever put their lives in harm's way for another human being?

They get millions of dollars to chase a ball up and down a field.

No letter I have written has affected me more personally. 

Dona Zamalloa, Jacksonville

Herd immunity without a vaccine

means many more deaths in U.S.

It appears there's finally a plan coming from the White House to deal with the pandemic. Spearheaded by a radiologist named Scott Atlas, the president has decided to go along with the concept of defeating the coronavirus by going with the herd immunity approach. 

Other nations embraced the concept until they saw the amount of death and destruction required to achieve it. Based on the science, here's the estimated numbers for the concept to take hold in the U.S. 

There will need to be about 215 million people infected. Based on current statistics, the number of deaths would be about 6 million. Assuming there are some effective treatments developed, that number could shrink to 2 million dead.

That's 10 times the number of deaths thus far.

E. Charles Robertson, Avondale