why the stay at home order and abortion are not the same. a short and seemingly obvious thread.

My body my choice is a feminist slogan drawing attention to the hypocrisy of someone’s body being regulated in a country where we talk so much about individual liberty.

Individual liberty is a cornerstone of America. But it’s tricky.

As a nation we can’t all just do whatever we want. If we did that without rules of structures a form of Darwinism would arise. There would be needless, death, famine, etc.

On some level when you choose to be apart of a nation, you choose to sacrifice some liberties for the greater good.

I can’t for example go to my neighbors home and have the right to take what I please. I can’t sexually assault someone I find attractive.

I can but there are consequences.

Why? Because if not, we would devolve even further into a society of pillaging, razing and that helps no one.

Now, the concept of public health is at the center of this venn diagram of I want to do what I want and the greater good.

we can’t smoke in public places: it can lead to second hand smoke

we can’t drink&drive: it can lead to horrible accidents

we wear seatbelts, have fluoride in our water, legislate against lead poisoning, have vaccines

All of this protects not one person but an entire community

This stay at home order was created for that reason.

#COVIDー19 is super efficient and transmissible. Choosing to have people stay indoors slows the spread to not overwhelm hospitals + needlessly kill people.

No matter how you spin it. People > profit. And as allegedly the “best country in the world” we have to figure out ways to protect our citizens.

Anger at the order is misdirected economic anxiety (not the kind from 2016 that led to 45) but people afraid of poverty.

Abortion, even if you disagree with it, is a personal choice for a single person.

It doesn’t cause widespread disease and death. It can’t spread to other people and kill them. Someone who had an abortion or chooses to have one isnt a threat to the health of the community.

co-opting the my body my choose is disingenuous and horribly obtuse.

Your body can be a silent asymptomatic carrier of a disease with a mortality rate of 1-3 percent.

So if you open up a nail salon like Georgia wants to do then 3 percent of everyone who comes in could die.

And I don’t know about you but I don’t like the idea that we gotta sacrifice folks, like they die and never come back, just for a concept as fake as wealth and money.

so now we have to decide if we want to be smart about our frustration.

Can we take time and see how other countries support their citizens better and demand that from our law makers?

Protesting in large groups is hella American and super necessary.

But to organize in this time, with something this contagious is not only dangerous but unbelievably short sighted.

Re: Kentucky last week: https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-reports-highest-coronavirus-infection-increase-after-week-protests-reopen-state-1498835 cc: @Newsweek