An interesting AP photo on the Viewpoints page of the Sept. 18 Herald showed an anti-mandate sign reading “My Freedom Doesn’t End Where Your Fear Begins! STOP THE MANDATE.”
The sign, of course, has it backward. Consider this:
One would be hard pressed to find a legal scholar who believes that a citizen’s unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness includes the right to infect fellow citizens with a potentially deadly disease.
Continuing along the same line, the government of the people exists, in part to effect the safety of its citizens. The means to this end are as drastic as war and as mundane as traffic signs. In matters of safety and public health, mandates regarding masks and vaccines are means to that end,
Thus the “fear” should really be the fear of infecting fellow citizens; a “fear” that should motivate every patriotic American.
In short: Comply with the covid vaccine and mask mandates; they won’t last forever, and, in the end, the country will be the better for it.
Joel Derby
Everett
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