There was a time in this country when people suffering from disease were forbidden the opportunity to try experimental treatments for their malady. President Trump succeeded in getting a “right to try” bill passed because it was his view that, as a human being, your liberty to choose your treatment, experimental though it may be, was your right under our Constitution.
Somehow, “through the looking glass,” experimental RNA injections are now being mandated for everyone, denying us “our freedom to choose.” Further, the therapeutics such as hydroxychloroquine have been forbidden to be used, denying the patient the right to try.
I don’t think you need a college education in deductive reasoning to see something is wrong with this equation. Pandemic or not. If vaccinated and unvaccinated people can spread the new variant, then I think we’ve reached the point of freedom to choose.
Jan Lipski
Vandenberg Village
This article appears in Aug 12-19, 2021.