COVID Mandates: Balance of Liberty & Safety a Public Choice

One of the more entertaining features of the late pandemic period is the ongoing battle between the Democrats’ State Media (CNN, Washington Post) and Red State Governors (Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott). The latest blow was struck this week after the media alighted on Governor DeSantis’s recent comments to the effect that whether you get vaccinated or not “is about your health and whether you want that protection or not. It really doesn’t impact me or anyone else.”

CNN immediately declared the assertion “false” (a now-standard label for opinions they don’t approve of) and trotted Anthony Fauci out to declare that “when you have a virus that’s circulating in the community and you’re not vaccinated, you are part of the problem.”

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Mario Loyola

Mario Loyola is a professor of environment at Florida International University and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

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One of the more entertaining features of the late pandemic period is the ongoing battle between the Democrats’ State Media (CNN, Washington Post) and Red State Governors (Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott). The latest blow was struck this week after the media alighted on Governor DeSantis’s recent comments to the effect that whether you get vaccinated or not “is about your health and whether you want that protection or not. It really doesn’t impact me or anyone else.”

CNN immediately declared the assertion “false” (a now-standard label for opinions they don’t approve of) and trotted Anthony Fauci out to declare that “when you have a virus that’s circulating in the community and you’re not vaccinated, you are part of the problem.”