The world is now faced with a hundred-year pandemic. And the stakes could not be higher.
We don’t have the time or luxury to accommodate irresponsible behavior. At best, it’s an unhelpful distraction. At worst, it’s a threat to our collective welfare.
Watching people protest, during a pandemic, is like watching a gang of gravediggers, digging our collective grave, including their own, and then refusing to lay down their shovels because they claim to have “the right” to dig.
This is not about you and your rights. It’s about all of us. It’s about the nation’s public safety and economic survival. Not just yours.
The first thing that should be understood is that none of us has “the right” to create a threat to public safety. Contrary to popular belief, civil liberties do not trump public safety. They never have and they never will — nor should they. Read, Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, and all the decisions that have followed it. Learn about your civil rights — their breadth and their limitations.
Unfortunately, most people know very little about the law. And even less about pandemics. And their ignorance, during a pandemic, is not a civil liberty — it’s a civil liability.
Before you ignore the advice of the scientific community, ask yourself three simple questions:
