You don't have a right to kill me (Opinion)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Cigarette smoking has been banned in various states and countless municipalities across the nation for the simple reason that smokers have no right to kill me or my family with their second-hand smoke. The same philosophy must also apply to wearing a mask to protect others from Covid-19: No one has the right to kill anyone else with their "second hand" germs.

Mask wearing, as Trump administration's infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has repeated numerous times, is to "protect others." This has been echoed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has dubbed wearing a face covering an urgent priority since asymptomatic people can transmit Covid-19.

This is pretty simple stuff: By wearing a mask you literally could save the life of someone's mother, father, sister, brother or grandparent. Think about that for a moment: How many times in your life can you do something that actually could save a life? Well here's one of those rare instances.

Yet there are still some Americans who in a display of utter selfishness refuse to wear a mask despite knowing the health risks that poses. One glaring example comes courtesy of Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert, who in the past publicly declared his refusal to wear a face covering. Well, on Wednesday, the anti-mask crusading Gohmert tested positive for Covid-19. The day before his test, an unmasked Gohmert was in close proximity to Attorney General Bill Barr, among others. And after news of Ghomert's test broke, Politico reported that staff members for various Republican members of Congress revealed had been "ridiculed' in the past for wearing masks in the Capitol.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/you-don-t-have-a-right-to-kill-me-opinion/ar-BB17u5nf?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Direct link:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/opinions/masks-whining-protesters-trump-obeidallah/index.html

[CaptYossarian]

2. Next, the WH will Make Asbestos Great Again.

They want to kill us all. But how does he expect to win if his followers won't wear PPE and we will? He didn't win the popular vote the first time.

My guess is that 2016 was the last general election and the COVID King will be coronated. That's their plan. Portland was like batting practice.

[volstork]

3. Already happened.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-asbestos-707642/

On June 1st, the EPA enacted the Significant New Use Rule, which allows the government to evaluate asbestos use on a case-by-case basis. Around the same time, the EPA released a new framework for how it evaluates chemical risk. Not included in the evaluation process are the potential effects of exposure to chemicals in the air, ground or water. It’s as absurd as it sounds. “It is ridiculous,” Wendy Cleland-Hamnett, who recently retired after four decades at the EPA, told the New York Times. “You can’t determine if there is an unreasonable risk without doing a comprehensive risk evaluation.”

The new evaluation framework is a nifty way for the EPA to circumvent an Obama-era law requiring the EPA to evaluate hundreds of potentially dangerous chemicals. Asbestos is among the first batch of 10 chemicals the EPA will examine, and also one of the most blatantly dangerous to public health. Its use is banned in over 60 countries, and though it is only heavily restricted in the United States, asbestos is no longer used in construction because of the health risks it poses. Direct or indirect exposure to the carcinogen can cause lung cancer and mesothelioma, and it has been found to kill 40,000 Americans annually. The World Health Organization wrote that “all types of asbestos cause lung cancer, mesothelioma, cancer of the larynx and ovary, and asbestosis.”

[CaptYossarian]

4. EPA Everybody Perish Already.

Up is down. Down is up.

The GOP Senate mass murderers can be blamed.

[Acornsouth]

5. People are willfully ignorant...

and many of them are trump supporters....