Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by tzs on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:12PM
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> Note that these freedoms were debated and won in an era where medicine was terrible.
That was also an era when the US was subject to numerous epidemics and pandemics of diseases such as cholera, typhus, yellow fever, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza, and it was debated and found that placing restrictions to try to limit the harm from those epidemics was a legitimate exercise of the state's police power and not an infringement of civil rights.
That was also an era when the US was subject to numerous epidemics and pandemics of diseases such as cholera, typhus, yellow fever, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza, and it was debated and found that placing restrictions to try to limit the harm from those epidemics was a legitimate exercise of the state's police power and not an infringement of civil rights.