Rights and the right

It is not your right to run a red light. It is not your right to sell paint with lead in it. It’s not your right to shoot a neighbor for not mowing his lawn. In a civilized society, personal rights aren’t the only ones that exist — that is anarchy. Rather, in a civilized society we do things that help both ourselves and others.

The nonsense of the Idaho Legislature demanding the Panhandle Health District should eliminate the best way of control the spread of COVID-19 is a self-defeating bit of lunacy by fools who somehow thing not dying is a Democratic plot. We have less than 5 percent of the world’s population and around twenty percent of the reported COVID-19 deaths in this nation because of people such as the Idaho Legislature.

Rather than take scientifically backed measures that let civilized nations have far fewer deaths, lower economic impact, and safer and earlier re-opening of their businesses, people on the right have decided that being idiots is a sign of brilliance. It’s rejectionism that endangers our nation’s lives, economy and democracy.

David Teich

Spokane Valley