If a person is protected from a disease via a vaccination, it should be sufficient to have the person who is afraid of the disease, voluntarily take the vaccination for his protection. It should not be regarded as being necessary for others to take the vaccination, particularly when they are from a demographic, that has a 99%+ survival rate. The idea that the government can suspend people’s rights and liberties, under circumstances in which they have done nothing indisputably wrong, should be found repugnant and unconstitutional to the courts. Freedom is the highest virtue in the American constitution – not life. (Certainly not a life without liberty).

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“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” – John Adams, 1765

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson, Of the Study of the Law in the United States, 1790

“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example … of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.” – James Madison, Essays for the National Gazette, 1792

The courts should rule, that unless the state establishes that a particular person is indisputably a risk to the general public (not a small subset of the public) his actions and rights cannot be abridged (for more than the limited time the government needs to determine the person’s risk.) No room should be given for the government to use a health emergency, to suspend individual rights on a broad scale, and establish tyrannical control. States must manage health emergencies, where preserving individual liberties on a broad scale, is preeminent, as it does its best to save lives.