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This is true. Being free from things that cause disease and death is a privilege, not a right, a privilege given to those with critical thinking skills greater than those of a frozen Brussels sprout.
And while you may not have this right, you do have other rights: You can hug and kiss someone with a 103-degree fever and greenish-yellow nasal discharge, you can drink from street puddles, fill your water bottle from your toilet, and a lot of other “rights” that are, in many cases, kind of gross.
By this writer’s logic, all mandates that protect us and others are absurd – wearing seat belts, speeding in school zones, drunk driving, eating a chicken salad sandwich that has been sitting in the July sun for three days ... oops, that one is not absurd. There is no mandate prohibiting that last one.
That’s within your rights.
Kevin Devine Durango
