I Respect Your Decision

This is not how public health works. How are people not getting this.

"We need to respect each other's decisions."

WTF. When someone else's "decision" increases their risk to others around them, no, we do not have to "respect" it. https://t.co/1CVb6OJNMy

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) October 23, 2020

​I respect your decision to smoke like a chimney in public, or wherever the hell you want to.

I respect your decision to drive drunk.

I respect your decision to fire off your gun whenever you want to, wherever you want to, in whatever direction you want to.

I respect your decision to play your music/tv/what have you as loudly as you can at any hour of the day, in your car or your home or wherever you set up the speakers.

I respect your decision to use public spaces as a garbage dump, or a bathroom.

I respect your decision to go naked in public.  After all, if I can't make you wear a mask, how can I make you wear clothes?

I respect your decision to ignore public sanitation laws and regulations.  Freedom begins with eating in a restaurant that may or may not be safe to eat in.  It's your decision.  I have to respect that.

I respect your decision to spread contagion regardless of how it affects others.

We need to respect each others decisions.  After all, society doesn't exist.  Maggie Thatcher said that; clearly she was right.  We don't owe each other anything, except in transactional ways.

The Cassandras are right:  Trumpism is going to be with us for a long time.

What will prevent him from continuing rallies? Who controls the trove of data he's amassed? These and many other questions will live on. https://t.co/PPGxD4Oxbm

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 23, 2020

(The only question is: who'll pay the fees for the venue? Because you know Trump won't.)