December 16, 2021 09:21AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 10,522
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His view is quite in line with many that believe that personal rights ends with such things as vaccinations. Well, I don't believe that. Certainly if you live in Russia, China, or some other authoritarian society where personal rights is always a pawn of the government defining and redefining it to allow them the most control, then one of course isn't given a choice.
Don't get me wrong. I am vaccinated and wish everyone would make that same decision. But... I didn't serve in the Vietnam era, and my father didn't serve in WWII, to allow governments to force such things upon people against their will. Might such a decision have consequences? Sure. But even the courts all over the USA at every level are deciding that requiring these shots for work, or for entrance into various venues, are problematic given our Constitution.
This is NOT the Zombie Apocalypse.
Someday, politicians with enough guts will finally come to the same conclusion that used to be the conclusion shared by most Americans. Life has risks. And at some point the effort to reduce those risks goes beyond a line in the sand. The problem is that in the last 2 years, that line has been moved to as close to a zero risk as concerns Covid as possible. Only as we're finding out, there will be no defeating that risk. Rather, we must learn how to deal with it and not allow it to become the controlling factor of our lives and of our economy. But politicians merely see it as an issue to debate and take sides in order to get elected or re-elected. Slogans like "follow the science" are nonsense. As though science is all knowing. Science said 2 shots of Moderna and we're safe. Then it's 3. Now it's that the latest mutation seems to get around it all together. All within about 1 year.
People: use common sense. And realize that nothing about our lives is guaranteed.
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