Freedom: We’re not pets to a governing body

At some point the US is going to start brandishing its “Live Free or Die” perk.

Women’s marchers were “brave.” Antifa were “defiant.” But lockdown protesters, who go to these rallies knowing they may catch their own death, are labeled as:

* “Idiots” for wanting to get on with the duty of living.

* “Fools” for putting their principles before their own lives.

* “Irresponsible” for knowing that, bug or no bug, people aren’t meant to live in cages, gilded as they may be, pets to a governing body that demands they come out when its says come out and play when it says play and be kept dependent on its “charity” to survive.

We know who is at most risk. We can protect them while my generation and the generations not at risk below me fight this bug in defense of the elderly, the weak and the young.

If all I need to do to preserve what generations before me did is to get on with my life, then yup, forward I will go.

It may kill me, but at this stage in the crisis, I’d rather be alive than survive.

This story was originally published June 3, 2020 at 11:08 AM with the headline "Freedom: We’re not pets to a governing body."