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To trot out an old saw: "Your rights end and the tip of my nose." You do not have a Deity-given right to infect other people with disease.
by steverb 5y ago
To trot out an old saw: "Your rights end and the tip of my nose." You do not have a Deity-given right to infect other people with disease.
- cheeseomlit 5y agoBy that same logic, shouldn't your rights end at the epidermis on my arm? Don't I have a right to be secure in my person, as that phrase implies? That interpretation makes more sense to me than asserting the right to be exempt from natural biological functions like disease.
- steverb 5y agoI would be totally okay with treating it like a driving accident. You're free not to get the shot, but in the case that you contract Covid you then open yourself up to civil liability to everyone you came in contact with.
- ctrlp 5y agoShould that be the precedent for all communicable disease going forward? What about the common cold your child gave me that caused me to miss work? Will you be liable for that?
- steverb 5y agoIf my kids walk around knowingly infecting people with a deadly communicable disease for which there is a free and safe vaccine for... then yes.
- ctrlp 5y agoMany people's kids are, in fact, sent to school with communicable diseases that are deadly for some, just as Covid is deadly for some. But why stop at death? If your child's cold costs me a day of work, then by your logic, I should sue you for lost wages.
- leesalminen 5y agoDoesn't the vaccine protect you from disease?
- ImPostingOnHN 5y agoprotect? yes. completely, 100% immunize? no.
- leesalminen 5y agoThe only things in life that are 100% is death and taxes.