It is not an accident that the US constitution gives equal weight to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as the guiding principles for government.
A concern for life and health must always be balanced with a concern to protect spaces for us to do our own thing and to define wellbeing in our own way.
A pandemic may be a chance for some medical leaders to impose their ideas of how people should live – but it does not mean they should be allowed to do so.
It is time to stop “following the science” and to recognise we are making choices about the sort of society we want to live in.
Hellbound and Down 
‘The alternative is to huddle in our homes, hide our faces from one another, and gradually grow poorer.
We may prefer that – but let it be a positive choice rather than because we let ourselves be frightened into compliance with the political programme of a narrow medical elite.’
It’s the way I’ve lived for at least the last 13 years.
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that’s a bummer. by choice?
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To consistently live as morally as these famous quotes and social commentaries imply, I see no other way.
I’m intellctually compelled rather than coercively. Plus today’s nightmare society couldn’t be more alienating to me.
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