Mask requirement like other safety laws

Pamela Gregg of Xenia

In Ohio, you may not smoke in public places, you may not get behind the wheel of an automobile if your blood alcohol level exceeds the legal limit for driving, and you must wear a seat belt when driving an automobile.

There are countless laws in place that may violate a person’s freedom of choice, but are designed to minimize risk to self and others.

These laws were created because, without them, people may choose the risky behavior. But if a person chooses to ignore the law and drive drunk, for example, and is involved in an accident that hurts someone, the injured party will not in turn injure a few more people, who would themselves each injure others, and so on; the injury would be confined to the single accident.

How then, in good conscience, can we not create a mandate around the injury that “keeps on giving?”