The interstate’s thataway

Re: “‘We’ll help you exit TX’: Salesforce CEO tweets,” Tuesday Metro & Business story.

First, the Salesforce CEO announces that his company will pay to relocate any Texas-based employee who objects to Texas’ new abortion law back to California.

Next, the Gavin Newsom recall effort in California is defeated.

The path forward for those impacted by either of these announcements seems very clear and easy. Salesforce employees, and any others who don’t care for our new Texas law, please, by all means, pack up your bags and head back to California.

California conservatives, please don’t beat your head against the wall any longer. Just gather your belongings and relocate to Texas. Here you will be met with open arms, bright smiles, much lower taxes and a majority of your neighbors will share your conservative values. It’s a win-win.

Mike Taylor, Allen

Vaccine leadership matters

Re: “20 years later, U.S. leadership matters more than ever — Allies, adversaries around the world are watching us,” by Kenneth Hersh, Sept. 12 Opinion.

Hersh is right that U.S. leadership matters. He reminds us that President George W. Bush saved, to this date, 20 million lives in Africa from HIV/AIDS with his PEPFAR program, established in 2003. “I couldn’t stand the idea of innocent people dying while the international community delayed,” Bush wrote in his memoir Decision Points.

Hersh asserts that our current vaccine effort around the world has been too timid. Most global health advocates agree. We have made commitments to deliver vaccines to low- and middle-income countries but the numbers and the schedules are inadequate.

The U.S. supported the development of mRNA vaccine technology through public funding. Therefore, we should pressure BioNTech, Pfizer and Moderna to share their know-how and change the course of the pandemic. While more than 50% of the population has been fully vaccinated in many wealthy countries, less than 3% of people in Africa have been fully vaccinated. Let Africa produce their own vaccines.

Email President Joe Biden (president@ whitehouse.gov) and tell him the U.S. must lead the global effort to boost the supply of COVID-19 vaccines to end the pandemic.

Margaret Smith, Dallas/Turtle Creek

Chuckle at Chicago’s expense

Thank you for accepting Chicago’s hilarious ad in Sunday’s A section telling Texas businesses to move there. I especially liked the joke about Chicago believing in every person’s right to vote. They do love voting in Chicago — even their dead have voted for decades.

Please tell Chicago that we do things big in Texas. In fact, my neurologist had an ad on the next page that was about 60% as big as the whole city of Chicago’s ad. Since that’s how I found her, I will bet Dr. Alma C. Horrilleno’s ad was also more effective.

Maybe Illinois should wait to tell Texas what to do until their governors are out of jail; their dead stop voting; their city is safe for everyone; and their pensions are not in shambles.

Maybe Texas businesses thinking about moving to Chicago should also consider a billboard I saw at the Indiana state line last year.

It read, “Don’t vote for what you fled.”

Mike Harris, Forney

You call these adults?

A man at the door to Methodist Children’s emergency room in San Antonio was asked to have his temperature checked before he could be allowed to enter. A simple health check to help prevent more COVID-19 cases. The man, it seems, did not wish to have his temperature checked. He pitched a walleyed fit, screaming and yelling, and wildly taking pictures with his phone before he stormed off just before police arrived.

These temper tantrums are occurring frequently, even on airplanes. I keep wondering what gives these people the idea that anyone anywhere is going to take that kind of 2-year-old behavior seriously? Adults simply do not behave that way. And if I had acted that way even when I was a child, I would not be able to sit down comfortably to this day.

Who reared these ill-mannered, rude, belligerent individuals who appear to have absolutely no control over their own behavior? Who defines wearing a mask to protect themselves and other people as tyranny? Whose attitude is “ain’t nobody gonna tell me what to do!” and who have utterly no self-discipline! Whose repertoire of behaviors is limited to screaming, hitting, spitting and unbridled rage. No adult can respect that.

Ellen Childress, East Dallas

Why no photo of the winner?

Re: “Djokovic deflated after near-miss — Foiled quest for historic Slam was draining, but 34-year-old Serb will come back strong,” Tuesday SportsDay story.

Instead of showing the victorious Daniil Medvedev, you chose to relish in what seems like a vendetta against Novak Djokovic, who has certainly had his regrettable moments. But why show the loser at his very worst instead of the winner at his very best in the finals of this Grand Slam event? I guess Medvedev was no more than a side note in your photo coverage of this event.

John Thompson, East Dallas

No accounting for taste

Re: “Cottage with natural design, California feel,” Sept. 5 Business Posh Properties.

I drive by this cement-fenced gated home every single day to and from work and honestly, I am dumbfounded as to why it is worth $3.3 million.

If you look in any direction from these white boxes you will see the homes that are native to this area. Filled with character, history, functionality and, most important, large trees that help block the noise from the Dallas North Tollway.

When will developers start to care about matching the style of the existing neighborhood? I feel they would rather build a cold, drab, minimalist white box with materials that are pennies on the dollar in value to maximize profit.

William Dominguez, Richardson