Furthermore, it is my understanding that we’re living under a mask mandate, not a law, which is why no one is handing out tickets. Wearing the same disposable mask over and over, or not laundering washable masks in a timely manner is unhygienic and a potential health risk. Whether masks actually even work or not (especially the ones we are wearing), is debatable, let alone the way that people are wearing them. Now we’re being told whether or not we can get together with our families, go to a restaurant or movie theatre or whether we have to wear a mask. We Albertans have been living in such peaceful, almost complacent times, that we’ve never really had a reason to rise up and protect what used to be our fundamental rights. The same could be said for the civil marches led by Martin Luther King.
I’m sure many compliant citizens thought of them as unpatriotic at the time, but they made their voices heard.
In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Americans protested the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War and the undemocratic enforcement of the draft. 27 letter to the editor, “No one has the freedom to break laws.”
