Others’ “freedom” turns to tyranny

When “your freedom” threatens harm to others it becomes tyranny.
The Bensalem School Board meeting Aug. 25 was to decide to accept recommendations of Bucks County Health Department and mandate masks for students, teachers, and staff while indoors.The majority voted no.
Some parents implored for wearing masks. Others said they objected because only they have the ‘freedom to tell their children what to do’.
Adding insult to injury, the district will not offer online instruction. Many parents have to make a living outside the home during school hours and have children too young to guide themselves. They will have to decide: Either send my kids into germ-infested environment or buy food and pay the rent?
One women cited statistics (without naming sources) of children who have actually gotten sick, hospitalized, or died – “about 1%.” Her argument missed that her own child might become part of that number.
One school board member called area hospitals to ask the number of pediatric beds existed. It was only 15. She thinks hospitals need to “get their act together!”

One percent of Bensalem School District school-aged children is about 65. So, yes, with this craziness, doctors, nurses and hospital staff should prepare to work longer hours and use more and more unpaid-for services and equipment.
Wearing a mask while indoors is more egregious than having enough children become so ill as to be hospitalized? This is the kind of illogic we are faced with.
When our kids were in school, the Bensalem School Board would have never made a health issue political.
My family wears masks indoors because we can still carry the virus and give it to others.
I challenge all logical independent thinkers on Election Day, Nov. 2, to take common sense – back to Bensalem Township.
Barbara Stakes, Oakford

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