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Beneath-resourced staff
not at fault for Sophia

Re: “Editorial: Probe county’s failures in case of Sophia Mason” (Web page A12, April 30).

It is extremely simple guilty social staff for the tragic loss of life of Sophia Mason. Probe all we would like, level fingers all we would like; nonetheless, the issue is social companies are understaffed and underpaid. The issue is that we do not need sufficient employees to adequately examine and take motion when there are indicators of abuse.

Make investments taxpayers’ cash in social companies or run the danger of this occurring, many times and once more.

Sue Kensill
San Jose

Cussed, unhappy ending
to Feinstein’s profession

In a single month, Sen. Dianne Feinstein can be 90. She remains to be recovering from shingles, a illness that’s harmful, painful and debilitating in older adults; her extended absence from her Senate duties suggests she is affected by Postherpetic neuralgia, a typical complication of shingles that “can have a extreme influence on a affected person’s high quality of life and practical capacity” within the aged.

Feinstein’s refusal to retire is obstructing the Senate Judiciary Committee’s capacity to hold out its duties, destroying her legacy as a public servant, and irritating those that have at all times supported her political profession. Historical past won’t be sort to her. What a tragic finish to this chapter of her life.

Robert Pierce
Los Altos

Myriad components form
one’s sexuality

Re: “We will’t dodge science in feminine athletics” (Web page A6, April 26).

Not too long ago The Mercury Information printed a letter about human growth. Human sexuality is a posh trait, the results of mind exercise, naturally occurring genetic variation and hormone ranges, not simply a few chromosomes, a number of genes and genitalia.

There are 23 pairs of chromosomes within the human genome, about 30,000 genes. Genes all through the genome encode the various hormones liable for gender id. There are of course occurring variations in genes leading to a variety of hormones and traits in people. Variations are pure, some uncommon i.e. being left-handed. Gene expression is influenced by the atmosphere i.e. stress, vitamin, blood provide, each in utero and all through life. Growth continues after start, i.e., the digestive system, which is why infants are delicate to what they’re fed. The mind develops for many years.

Thus, whereas the bodily embodiment of organs and limbs types in utero, human growth shouldn’t be full at start.

Janet Warrington
Los Altos

Republican leaders
ought to elevate debt ceiling

When the Home reconvened the night of Jan. 6, 2021, 139 or 63% of Home Republicans voted towards certifying Joe Biden’s victory. Their actions confirmed the extremist nature of the Republican Social gathering.

At the moment, by holding the nation’s economic system hostage and threatening a debt ceiling default, the Republican Social gathering is participating in financial terrorism.

Slightly than negotiating a finances in good religion and by “common order” the Republican Social gathering is prepared to thrust the nation into financial chaos. They hope to remake a authorities with significantly lowered or eradicated social applications. The Inexpensive Care Act , for instance, is on the Republican “chopping block”.

The financial meltdown that follows a debt ceiling default will devastate our financial savings, investments and job safety. Demand that the Republican Social gathering’s management pull the nation again from the brink of financial break and restore “common order” to our authorities.

Mark Decide
San Jose

Do extra to assist
girls depart abusers

Based on nationwide organizations, one in 4 girls in the US are victims of home violence, three girls are murdered on daily basis by their companions, and one in six girls are survivors of sexual assault.

This appears to be ignored by a lot of the media and society. With the intention to make actual change, we’d like native, state and federal governments to spend money on girls’s security and supply government-funded girls’s shelters that enable girls to flee from their abusers for the long run and get again on their ft, as many of those girls have nowhere to go.

Girls want alternatives to get jobs, shelter and lives away from the unsafe environments they arrive from as a result of no lady ought to ever should undergo abuse, or within the worst circumstances loss of life, by a companion as a result of they’d nowhere else to go.

Natalie Garcia
San Jose