By Zamboni
Did you hear the story about Republican nutcase Dan Crenshaw being fined $5,000 for evading House security? Boy! We bet that other countries' legislatures wouldn't be nearly as tough as the anti-freedom Democrats are on Capitol Hill! Right?
Nope. Just look northward to Quebec's National Assembly. ("National," even though they're provincial — but then, we all indulge them.) Yesterday, the Assembly voted to require vaccine passports of all their members who want to do business on the floor. You know what, kids? When the famously contrarian Quebeckers demand it, proof of vaccination is here to stay. Count on it.
Around the same time, about two hours west of Quebec City, Dr. Anthony Fauci received an honorary degree and gave a lecture at McGill University in Montreal. Maybe he felt more free to speak his mind outside the US, who knows? But the frankness of his comments was pretty striking.
"If ever you could imagine the worst possible environment into which a global pandemic emerges, (it) would be in an environment of anti-science, complete normalization of lies, complete normalization of equating the true scientific data with complete nonsense," he said. "This is something that is so disturbing to me as a physician, as a scientist and as a public health person."
Asked about the anti-mask idiots who are making fools of themselves in restaurants and at school board meetings, Fauci said this:
"I think what people have to appreciate is that indeed, you do have personal liberties for yourself and you should be in control of that. But you are a member of society, and as a member of society — reaping all the benefits of being a member of society — you have a responsibility to society. And I think each of us, particularly in the context of a pandemic that’s killing millions of people, you have got to look at it and say there comes a time when you do have to give up what you consider your individual right of making your own decision, for the greater good of society."
In short, your right to spread the virus ends at the border of my right not to get it. Maybe someday we'll all learn this. But American democracy is a constant re-evaluation of who gets what when, isn't it? We know that, and yet we still believe. We cats PURR.
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