Freedom to sick others? Hah!
It is laughable in the extreme, yet the fools among us keep insisting on the most ridiculous notion imaginable.
They contend that their refusal to wear a mask, to practice social distancing and to accept a vaccine against a killer disease is a matter of personal freedom. That they should retain the freedom to say “no” to all of it.
No! Hell no! It is not a matter of freedom. It is a matter of allowing those among us to infect others.
I grew weary long ago in the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic of this nutty notion. It is getting nuttier by the day, even as the numbers of infection, hospitalization and death are decreasing. What’s more, those numbers are plummeting because more Americans are heeding the advice of the medical pros to (a) wear a mask, (b) practice social distancing and (c) get vaccinated.
The numbers do not lie. They tell us that the vast majority — somewhere in the 90 percentile — of those who are sick and die from the pandemic virus are the unvaccinated.
So, those who suggest their refusal to do what the doctors tell us is a matter of personal freedom — that they are resisting the demands of tyrants — are culpable in the continuing mayhem brought by a killer virus.
Their freedom stops when it puts others in dire peril.