The Declaration of Independence and Mask Mandates

 

Americans believe they have been “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Mask mandates violate all three of these rights.

Life

Breathing is a life-critical human function. If you stop breathing, you die. If breathing is hampered, bodily functions are compromised. As untold studies have shown, prolonged mask wearing is harmful to human health. You cannot live a full life when breathing is impaired. Ask anyone with COPD.

Liberty

Masking everyone—without choice—denies individual liberty. The state is ordering you to do something against your will. A counter argument might be, “Your rights end where my rights begin." Except, despite emotion-laden narratives, the simple act of breathing by a well person does not threaten anyone’s rights.

Pursuit of happiness

Pursuit of happiness is often defined as the freedom to make what you want of life. Masks take the joy out of learning. They sucked the energy out of the classroom. Masks make teachers, administrators, and students grumpy and reluctant participants. Schools with mask mandates are sad places.

Autocrats would like to erase this quote from the Declaration of Independence. They can’t. Our Founding Principles are too deeply ingrained in Americans psyches. After all, they’re endowed by our Creator.

That same document also warns authoritarians that when people are subjugated, “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government.”