Shaming or lifting?

Dear Editor:

RE: County donors gave over $24,000 to ‘Freedom Convoy,’ Feb. 24.

Is it really helpful for your community to know that an elected official donated $200 to the Freedom Convoy on Feb. 6? Are you trying to shame him or are you lifting him up?

If you are trying to shame him, please note that he was one of many random rural Canadians who donated to the GiveSendGo campaign. On Feb. 6 there was no way of knowing how the convoy would turn out.

Many fully vaccinated people supported the convoy with small donations - it just seems to many people that perhaps we have had enough mandates.

I have heard from a number of people who said if they did not push as hard to get everyone vaccinated, they probably would have. But many people feel vaccination should be a personal choice.

Osiah Horst, Cobden