The problem for me with this complicated situation is that I greatly prefer personal autonomy is most things, but that's heavily weighted towards things that don't affect others, in health, safety, or money.

Want to smoke two packs a day? Knock yourself out...just make sure you can afford to pay for your own cancer treatments, or pay extra-high insurance premiums, so we don't pay for your bad behavior.

That pretty much applies to all drug use, and most social actions.

The problem is when someone's "freedom" runs into someone else's health or safety...I tend to go with the person whose health or safety is being threatened.

Honestly, if you are stupid enough to think this is anywhere from "just the flu" to a conspiracy cooked up by the Deep State to discredit Our Lord & Savior Donald Trump, then I think you should have every right to catch it, and God willing, die horribly...but...

You don't get medical care unless you pay out of pocket, and there is a space left for you after all the non-idiots get their medical care.

You don't get to go anywhere, or act in any way, that exposes innocent people to death from your stupid behavior.

Unfortunately those useful idiots that show up at Koch Industry's protests don't want to adhere to any social responsibility...they want the "freedom" to threaten other people with their stupidity...both directly by getting sick and infecting others, and indirectly by sucking up medical care that, frankly, they don't deserve.

In a perfect world people wouldn't be that stupid, but not only are half the people of below average intelligence, those that attend those protests are the bottom of that bottom half.

So here we are. When does their freedom to be ignorant fools run into someone else's freedom to be free from their stupidity?

Fish on...

Todd