Letter to the editor: Freedoms don't allow us to endanger others

Letter-writer Greg Weidner (“Mandates vs. freedoms”) makes an incredibly ridiculous statement: “Couldn’t a student also be sent home if they are vaccinated?”

Please, tell me why that makes sense. Your freedom doesn’t exist when endangering others. If a student is vaccinated, that means he/she has done his/her part to make others safe. Let me remind you that covid is a public global health crisis. Mandates do not infringe on your personal freedom. The vaccine is meant to keep you and others safe from this potentially deadly virus. Are you really that naive? Your statement makes me think that you lack common sense.

Maybe you are the type of person who would also like to see smoking return to restaurants and public facilities, seatbelts outlawed, DUIs erased, etc. These are other examples that undo personal freedom, right?

The level of stupidity in this country is unbelievable!

Jim Raskovsky

Blawnox