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After Hearing About The NJ Governor...
...berating antivaxxers, and reading what their posters said, I had a thought.
We've been hearing from their ilk, for 30+ years that "freedom isn't free". (They're wrong, but let's let that go.)
Well, ok! They are free not to get vaxxed. They have the freedom to choose.
But, that freedom isn't free.
The price of that freedom is restrictions on what activities in which they can still engage.
So, get fired, can't go to a restaurant, can't get on a plane, those are the costs of freedom for them.
I'm not putting a price on their freedom.
They are.
And, putting a price on freedom was their idea, not mine.