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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is when your personal freedom on an issue should end
When it infringes on others health and freedom.
A parent sent their child to school after a positive Covid-19 test. More than 80 students may have been exposed, officials say
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/us/reno-nevada-school-covid-exposure/index.html
JT45242
(2,313 posts)Of course pain and suffering could triple all those.
Decisions have consequences --
If any kid dies from this outbreak, the parents should be charged with depraved indifference to human life. This is no different from AIDS patients --
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Especially now that the vaccine has been available for months.
This sort of negligence has both criminal and civil aspects.
Haggard Celine
(16,864 posts)They dont know what personal freedom is.
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)If your kid can bring preventable, potentially lethal diseases to school, then my kid will be having PB&J for lunch
Scrivener7
(51,075 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)right wingers want complete personal freedom. The only function of the government is to protect property rights.
When it comes to personal safety, however, suddenly the government should stay out of it!
markie
(22,759 posts)"Your Liberty To Extend Your Arms Ends Just Where Another's Nose Begins"
Upthevibe
(8,100 posts)unblock
(52,438 posts)But that's what republicans are screaming for.
This isn't like helmets or seat belts, where the risk is mainly just the one making the decisions (not entirely though, due to insurance pools and possible rare risks to rescue workers)
In the case of infectious diseases, these people are making a decision to expose others to possibly lethal risk.
That's not freedom.
That's terrorism.