Government ought to leave us alone as much as possible
In America, we are responsible to keep ourselves safe and then next to protect our families. Under the Constitution, Americans have no unlimited obligation to the “community,” except to follow reasonable laws, even when one disagrees with them. If citizens want to participate in the insane, overblown reaction of the New York State government to the COVID-19 “crisis,” that’s fine. But the real “crisis” remains the state and federal government closing the economy which potentially puts all Americans in far more danger with lost liberty and a decimated country.
Americans don’t belong to the state, and that’s what Cuomo is saying by requiring people to wear masks on their faces. “We The People,” are the ultimate authority in this country, and we need to remember that more than ever as we live through the COVID-19 hysteria.
The government ought to leave us alone as much as possible, especially in this case when not wearing a mask poses only minimal, hypothetical risk to others.
Living in New York State under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order has caused hardship for all, but as good citizens, we have adhered to “sheltering in place,” working remotely, and for some, being classified as a worker in an “essential” industry. Anybody who cares about civil liberties and freedom has chafed under these restrictions, but we have endeavored to help “flatten the curve” of COVID-19. But, as I’ve written previously and it’s worth saying again, millions of Americans die prematurely each year from cancer, heart and lung disease, alcohol and drug abuse, car accidents, unintentional injuries, and suicides and we do not shutter society and our national economy for these maladies. COVID-19 is a relative piker in terms of being lethal, especially when one considers that it mainly kills the elderly and those with compromised immune systems. Similar to the flu, COVID-19 mostly shortens life as compared to the horrific deaths mentioned above which kill Americans of various ages and health.
It’s not money versus lives, as Democrats are fond to say; it’s Americans’ lives devastated compared to some lives lengthened
Government ought to leave us alone as much as possible so far, President Trump has merely recommended that Americans wear a face covering, and not of the surgical N95 kind which is in short supply and needed by medical personnel to treat COVID-19 patients. But, as I predicted to friends earlier this month, Cuomo’s recommendation then would become today’s requirement.
We need to get this country open and working, as soon as possible. Already, in the last three weeks, more than 15 million Americans have lost their jobs. Divorces, domestic violence, and alcohol abuse have increased. Soon, there may be widespread societal unraveling and civil unrest if and when unemployment numbers explode. It’s not money versus lives, as Democrats are fond to say; it’s Americans’ lives devastated compared to some lives lengthened.
Being forced to wear a mask takes prevention to absurd extremes. Incredibly, Cuomo has said his actions are designed to save even one person and that New Yorkers will enforce others to wear a mask!
So far, I have been able to quarantine myself, get exercise, and work remotely with minimum inconvenience by following Cuomo’s original executive order first issued in March. But the ShutDown America crowd ignores the reality of Life: People Die. We are all going to die of something, someday, sooner or later.
Wearing masks to reduce infinitesimal risk represents tyranny masquerading as science.
