I just haven’t had the heart to call one of my longtime friends, call him a friendly acquaintance, Pepe Forina, who lost both feet/ lower extremities due to COVID-19. It’s beyond tragic because based on a front-page story The Monitor published about him Sept. 29, his wife and daughter pleaded with him to follow their lead and get one of the COVID vaccines.So why didn’t he get vaccinated?In The Monitor story, Forina said, “Stupidity, basically because I didn’t believe in it. I didn’t believe that a vaccine … I just didn’t want to get it done.” Now, the once activeNow,