Opinion: My Body, My Choice?

The Moose Droppings has been noticing quite a bit of political hypocrisy going on, even more so than the normal amount regularly encountered. In the last few weeks, many politicians who traditionally favor pro choice and abortion rights have been tripping over themselves to order mask mandates and forcing medical decisions upon the citizenry they supposedly represent. This begs the questions, whatever happened to My Body, My Choice?

If one is to remain consistent in their philosophy regarding personal freedoms in health care decisions, then shouldn’t mask usage be optional? How can one reconcile the proposition that it is okay to terminate an unborn life and then require and enforce mandates for mask usage, because ineffective as they are it may ‘save a life, somewhere, somehow’?

If politicians have to ‘do something’, at least make mask usage dependent upon one’s current health risk factors and statistical probability for having a fatal reaction to the Covids. How is it that the biggest germ factories the world has ever known, infants and toddlers, are not required to wear masks while the rest of us have to?

The Moose Droppings would like to propose its own plan. Considering that the entire planet has either had the Coronas, have the Coronas, or will be catching the Coronas, how about if we let individuals decide if they would like to wear a mask or not. The Moose Droppings understands that their are those who have age and/or medical risk factors for whom mask usage makes sense. The Moose Droppings also understands that the rest of the population could give two farts of a Twinkie about the Covids, as they are statistically more likely to perish from drowning, even though they don’t own a pool or swim in a lake.

If My Choice, My Body is appropriate for one medical condition, then it is appropriate for all medical conditions. Each individual should be responsible for their own health, and society as a whole should not be enforcing mandates, especially feel-good, virtue signaling, wholly ineffectual ones. Our advice to the politicians who failed Intro to Logic: quit making the cures worse than the disease. You’ve done enough already.