Yeehaa!I honestly don't understand how taking sensible covid precautions has somehow become an assault on our freedom, according to some. The freedoms and liberties we seem to take for granted today, were all paid for by past generations in numerous times of crises and wars and depressions - too many paying the ultimate sacrifice with their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
We're in another crisis, this time fighting a war against a pandemic - why is something so simple as staying home as much as possible, and wearing a mask when we need to go out, considered by some as so intolerable?
My late Dad was part of D-Day, froze his way through Europe from Utah Beach to Germany, earned a Purple Heart, and never considered what he did as anything other than his duty as an American citizen.
But simply staying home as much as possible and wearing a mask at the grocery store is too much of a sacrifice for some people.
I get that these shutdowns are destroying small businesses - but if we'd had a strict national 3-week shutdown in early March combined with a stimulus bill that actually benefitted small businesses and individuals, then a national mask mandate until July, along with localized shutdowns based on contact tracing... many lives would have been saved and many of us would now be able to visit our families for Christmas.
Rant over, sorry if I offended anybody.
My liberties/freedoms should not override another's liberties/freedoms to health, safety and wellbeing -for them and their families- and neither should anybody else's for mine. Common sense and decency is what we are asking.