Living in a society means sometimes doing things that annoy you for the good of everyone else and wearing a mask should be one of those things, writes Tribune columnist Marina Gomberg.
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reared its ugly head last week and set fire to mine. Searing inflammatory destruction in my ear spread to my head, neck, throat and down. This means that while the pandemic rampages through our state with unprecedented fury and I’m at my most vulnerable, my state leaders chose to prioritize folks’ freedom to be a threat to people like me.We live in a society, not a vacuum, friends. And while I’m a devoted civil liberties fan, I honor the boundary of any person’s freedom when it butts up against someone else’s ability to also exist freely.
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