To the editor:

We’re living in the age of COVID and the new variant, Delta, is surging. What’s more important for all of us at this point? Is it freedom or our health? Avoiding the vaccine and not wearing a mask or trying to keep our population safe before the virus turns really nasty again?

Numbers of infected and hospitalized people are again surging. We all remember how bad 2020 was and earlier this year we thought we were nearly over this calamity. But with many tens of millions of adults and all young children not yet vaccinated a drastic turn for the worse remains possible.

Please consider getting vaccinated in the near future. It’s free so we can all afford it. Do your part to keep Minnesota, the USA, and the world safe.

Ingrid and Lowell Liedman

New Ulm