Freedom does not include the freedom to get someone else sick.
It does not include the freedom to refuse to wear a mask in the grocery store, sneeze on someone in the produce section and give him the virus. That’s not freedom for the person who is sneezed upon. For that person, the first person’s “freedom” means chains — potential illness and even perhaps a death sentence. No society can function on that definition of freedom.
Today’s right wing — and it is important to call it that and not conservative, which it is not — defends spreading disease, potentially killing other people, as freedom. It is madness.
Freedom means the freedom not to get infected by people who refuse to mask up.
Dr. Donald Poling