In general, when someone starts whining about someone else impinging on their rights, it’s because they want to behave in an obnoxious way.
That’s what bemuses me the most about seven states — all of them red and many here in the South — forbidding school districts from requiring students to wear masks if they want to return to classroom learning.
“Kids aren’t at risk …”
“They don’t spread the disease …”
“They’ve been vaccinated …”
Good for them. I was vaccinated four months ago, and many places here in Georgia say that makes it all right for me to enter without wearing a mask.
All right, maybe.
But even if my two doses of the Moderna virus make me 100 percent safe — which they don’t — from getting sick, they absolutely do not eliminate the possibility that I can pass the virus on to someone else.
That’s why when I go to the grocery store or the pharmacy, I wear a mask.
Because if I have the right to do something, that doesn’t make it right for me to do it.
But the war bigger question for these seven states and all the Trumpanzees saying no is this:
In what possible way does it hurt children to have to wear masks in the classroom?
It isn’t as if we’re talking about vaccinations, the bete noire of people who are too smart of their own good. There aren’t any medical reasons for most people not to wear masks, and the few cases there are can be dealt with individually.
“Well! My iron lung is working again …”
No one is singling kids out and making fun of them for wearing masks. It’s just the opposite.
Actually, what this is all about is people saying that nobody’s going to make them do something they don’t want to do.
That’s America, folks.
Sinking slowly into the sunset.