#UseYourBrain
I think there’s a misunderstanding.
“My body, my choice” doesn’t mean you can for instance use your body to punch or kick or stab people. It doesn’t mean you can use your body to grab other people’s groceries or puppies or umbrellas. It doesn’t mean you can risk infecting other people during a lethal pandemic.
This nitwit shouldn’t have been “proud” to tell her colleagues that masks are oppressive. She should instead have thought about how oppressive a bad case of Covid is.
In Georgia, she claims, people don’t care if they infect others. That’s unfortunate at a time when the virus is roaring upwards.
The United States reported another record one-day spike in Covid-19 cases as the outbreak grows more severe and overwhelms some hospitals.
The country reported more than 153,400 new cases on Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That’s the third-straight record one-day spike and has pushed the seven-day average of new U.S. infections to over 131,400, up more than 32% compared with a week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of Hopkins data.
That graph is NOT what we want to see.
Wear the god damn mask.
This is impossible. I was assured that we would never hear anything about COVID again after Election Day.
I assume that her embrace of ‘My Body, My Choice’ means that she is as pro-choice on reproductive rights as she is on masks.
Nah, just kidding.
“The virus is roaring upwards.”
That’s what a virus does in a Trumpidemic. That faint roaring sound you hear is all those little virus particles heiling their fuehrer. If they had arms, they would all be giving him Nazi salutes.
“Heil Trump…!!!!”
Hmmm, what happened about two weeks ago that would have had lots of people standing close to each other, many not wearing masks?
So anyway, despite these assholes, in my experience here in Georgia, pretty much everyone here are wearing masks. We are not stupid, at the home state of the CDC, but you can find idiot no-maskers here just like you can anywhere else. Dipshit Marjorie is not representative of all of us in this state.
A mask requirement is simply a clothing requirement. It is not a breach of body autonomy any more than a requirement to wear shoes is. What’s their next gambit? A religious freedom argument based on drawing an equivalence between masks and burqas? God these people are dishonest. As usual, any argument will do if it provides even the ghost of an excuse for them to do whatever they want.
And if she wants to drink herself legless, leave her seatbelt off, speed through residential neighborhoods, and celebrate her ‘freedom’ to run red lights?
Holms:
It’s not bodily autonomy she’s concerned about, it’s freeeeedom from being told by the government that there are certain things that she must do or face the consequences: the freeeedom to decide for oneself which laws and rules one obeys, which is funny really considering that the people who spout this selfish nonsense are the same people who vote for the party of ‘law and order’ (or law’n’order, if your name is Rudi) and expect everybody else to comply with the law.
In her misguided view, masks are oppressive because they symbolise governmental over-reach. They deny the individual the choice of whether or not they want to risk becoming infected by something other than crass stupidity (while removing the freedom of others who don’t wish to be infected by idiots who don’t wear masks, but they refuse to see the hypocrisy there). It’s a ridiculous argument, of course, because there’s no way that it can be applied consistently. Were a student to walk into one of her classes stark naked and claim that mandatory wearing of clothing is oppressive, it’s down to the individual to decide whether to be warm or cold, and that anybody offended by nudity has the freedom to look away, campus police would be called immediately, I’m sure.
We need to create a test that candidates must pass before they can hold national office. I’m not asking for anything that demands deep expertise in any field, just a bar slightly higher than the literal floor. Basic civics (can you name the three branches of the government?), basic US history, basic world politics, basic numeracy, and basic science.
@Holmes: Guaranteed this woman would 100% uphold the “right” of stores to eject black customers for wearing baggy pants or any number of spurious dress code violations.
To Ophelia–A belated thank you for featuring my comment the other day. I was very flattered!
You’re welcome – thank you for writing it!
Yes, I imagine. We actually had one of our locals – one who provides a bit of color to our bland local politics, but never actually wins anything – use that argument when picked up for drunken driving. It was a violation of his rights. The judge did not buy it, and he got a fine. (Only a fine? Oh, but he’s white and registered Republican. Of course only a fine.)