SHERIFF SONGER: MY RIGHT TO LIVE TRUMPS YOUR RIGHT TO BE AN A**HOLE

(An open letter to Klickitat Co., Oregon Sheriff "Fomite" Bob Songer, who has publicly refused his duty to enforce state public health law requiring mask wearing, citing Constitutional liberties.)

First, Sheriff Bob, be warned that, for a person of your age and obesity level, covid 19 infection poses a serious to severe risk of death or permanent organ damage.

Second, you are advised to survey photos of World War I victory celebrations from 1918. Notice the young men in uniform are wearing masks as they celebrate the victory of Liberty. They recognize their freedom carries a duty to not spread the deadly influenza pandemic of that time.

Third, you assert your right to shoot into inhabited dwellings at random to be supreme to the rights of inhabitants of those homes to live, at least metaphorically:
A person's body is the dwelling place of their soul, and they have a right not to have deadly viral particles shot into it by a**holes who refuse to recognize any duty to their community.
It is beyond dispute that when one person in a duo wears a mask viral transmission is reduced markedly, and where everyone wears a mask infections are reduced by 90% or more (e.g. S. Korea, Czech Republic).
You claim to defend the 1st and 2nd Amendments in protecting the liberty of jerks to spread deadly disease. Doubtless if I were to appear outside your courthouse nude you'd refuse to warn, cite or arrest me.
Obviously showing the human body is but a little more a hazard to public health than the spreading of a deadly virus through the air.

Perhaps you refuse to believe in the existence of microbes because you've never seen one.
Well, you,ve never seen air, but if yours was cut off by a pulmonary embolism caused by covid 19 you'd want nothing so dearly. That's what happened to Quentin, a 24-year-old friend of ours whom we'd watched with affection as he grew up from childhood at our church.
Perhaps you could explain to his mother why health is not a public concern.