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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by yibg on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:07PM (#30090212)
Freedoms aren’t considered in isolation. Maintaining freedom for some means removing freedom for others some times. In this case the “freedom” to get timely treatment for those that need it.
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by xdennis on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:29PM (#30093018)
> the “freedom” to get timely treatment for those that need it.

That's not freedom. Freedom is not putting up barriers.

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by yibg on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:51PM (#30093263)
Interesting. In this take, what are the limits to freedom? Your right to swing your fist and all that. If your actions are limiting what I can do, is that not curtailing my freedoms?

Edit: to be clear on where I stand. I think you can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't affect me. If it affects me, maybe you should still be able to do it, but then we need some thought and discussion and isn't an automatic right because "freedom".

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by ipaddr on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:22PM (#30092929)
Are you not getting timely treatment? Is this your reality?
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by spookthesunset on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:32PM (#30091345)
> In this case the “freedom” to get timely treatment for those that need it

So why not build more capacity instead of forcing the public to adhere to a bunch of toxic and socially corrosive mandates?

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by jokethrowaway on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:26PM (#30091254)
> In this case the “freedom” to get timely treatment for those that need it.

That's not freedom, that's an entitlement.

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