The Cape Gazette | August 24, 2021

“You can’t tell me what to do!” “You’re trying to take away my freedom.” “That’s an attack on my individual rights.” “It’s my choice. It has nothing to do with you; it’s all about me.”

Me, me, mine, I, I, I.

And so, here we are once again in the midst of a COVID surge, spreading with alarming rapidity because of the new variant. Yet, even as states are experiencing more new cases, more deaths, a large swath of people continues to refuse to be vaccinated and refuse to wear masks. Being told to do so is an attack on individual rights and personal freedom, they argue. At this point, with our country so painfully polarized, even a request is taken as an affront.

Read the entire Cape Gazette commentary here.