Two recent letters regarding COVID-19 mandates caught my eye.
Mr. (Jonathan) Leroux worries that we will forget the tyranny of our government during the COVID-19 crisis.
I wonder if he has forgotten the more than 1 million Americans who died of the disease (more than World War I, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War combined) and the overflowing hospitals and morgues at the time.
I also wonder what “evidence (of lies) is being revealed” that he doesn’t provide any details of.
I also wonder how many people who quit their jobs in protest of mandates were actually vindicated in some way, considering that they probably lost wages, and there has been no Ah-Ha! moment when vaccines were discovered to be unsafe. (Ironically, with 270 million Americans vaccinated, the COVID-19 vaccine has been more extensively tested than almost any other new medication that people take without question when prescribed by their doctors.)
In contrast, Mr. (Chris) Gluchoski better defines the role of government.
Our government wasn’t created overnight by a group of crazy liberals. Our government and laws have been developed over centuries by different political parties for the basic reason that people just can’t get along without them.
The bigger and more diverse our society gets, the more laws we need to keep it on the rails. Some personal freedom has to be traded for personal safety, and we can’t each pick and choose which laws personally benefit us and ignore the ones that don’t.
If wearing a piece of cloth on your face or driving under the speed limit to help protect your neighbors is too restrictive or burdensome for you, then Mr. Leroux’s advice is good: Just quit society.
If you want the freedom to do whatever you want, live off the grid (maybe on a private island or pirate ship in international waters), self-sufficient and alone.
If he is correct, you will eventually be vindicated when our society of liberal zombies collapses due to infection control and slow driving.
David Wexler
Hamburg