In an interview on Tuesday, Schwarzenegger told former National Security Council staffer Alexander Vindman and CNN’s Bianna Golodryga that he’s disgusted with (1) the coronavirus misinformation out there and (2) the Americans who think their actions don’t affect others. And as we prepare to enter yet another season of COVID, those who continue to do their part are pretty sick of the ones who don’t-a frustrated cohort that includes such diverse constituents as Nancy Pelosi and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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This latter group, among other things, believes protecting the vulnerable is not their problem, that vaccines are for suckers, that wearing a mask infringes on their personal freedom, and that Tucker Carlson knows more about viruses than people who have studied them for their entire professional lives. Rush pushes for government mandates on sanitation.A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are two groups of people in the U.S.: those who take the virus seriously and are willing to do what it takes to stop it, and those whose own selfishness and ignorance will ensure we’re still dealing with this thing for God knows how long. Havre de Grace sinks anybody crossing the river into Maryland.ġ780s until the end of life - Benjamin Franklin advocates for stringent public health measures in the face of epidemics.
Those breaking quarantine are jailed with assistance of citizen patrols, particularly in New York, Baltimore, and Norfolk.
In no way, shape, or form, did the Founding Fathers ever envision "liberty" to fucking mean you had the inalienable right to spread disease.ġ775 - General Washington uses 100 Soldiers to quarantine the city of Boston and restrict all travel.ġ776 - the forced inoculation of the entire Northern Armyġ777- the mandatory inoculation of all Continental Soldiers and militiamenġ777 - Thomas Jefferson drafts a mandatory inoculation law for citizens of Virginiaġ770s- early 1780s - mandatory isolation and hospitalizations for anybody symptomatic.ġ793 - Benjamin Rush and James Monroe assist in enacting quarantining refugees from Philadelphia.
american history is covered in this concept, and when we were at our best? the majorities were marked by this concern for their fellow countrymen. he’s giving up his freedom (in MAJOR ways) for you and me. the guy who’s in a prison camp overseas to defend you? talk to him about sacrifice for the greater good, and then get back to me about how your glasses fog up. We can’t have a (healthy, in every dimension) society, if we’re not looking out for the society’s ultimate freedoms. Well, your “freedom” is now impeding ours. but, if you’re assigned to our group, and you’re either if you’re kid the corner who doesn’t want to do his homework and get an ‘f,’ sure, most of us will roll out the red carpet for your freedom. I know one of the analogies running around about this is the whole “group project” mentality. Start harming others with your words? you’ll see how quickly “free” speech, isn’t.įire your gun straight up in the air (‘harming’ no one) in a large, public gathering, and you’ll see how quickly you…’ll not be in public, any more. Underneath the united states freedom laws is a guiding principle of… “as long as it doesn’t harm another’s rights/freedoms/well-being/liberties.” At some point, when you've tried to reason with a person, when no attempt at rationality or empathy manages to placate them, when they're wholly determined to fight you head-on, then there comes a point when you have to accept the challenge and deal with them on their terms. I'm glad that somebody has the guts to aim directly for this runaway train and not beat around the bush. As with most things in the world, there has to be a balance between the interests of the individual and the interests of a society. This placement of individual "freedom" above all other considerations - including the well-being of all the humans around one - has been one of the most caustic, destructive forces in modern American society, and with climate change already having placed one foot in the proverbial door, will surely lead to our collective demise. (Here comes the "but".lol)īut I also think that the American concept of "freedom" has become like a runaway train with no brakes.
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