Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "DeSantis Snaps At Reporter Asking About Rising Cases: 'How Do You Know They Weren't Wearing Masks?'" video.

If parents were competent to medically care for their children, then we would not need doctors. I take my child to a doctor because I am not competent to care for them in that way. My freedom does not include the right to put others at foreseeable and preventable risk. I have a personal responsibility to safely drive my vehicle. I am not free to drive it any way I want to. Personal responsibility applies to public health measures demonstrated by research to have a positive impact. If your child needs their appendix taken out, do you start studying how to do that yourself, or do you take them to a surgeon? We educate and pay surgeons to be ready to help us when we need it. Same goes for understanding all the research that goes into the practice of public health. Each of you has probably developed expertise that other people rely upon to help them keep going. We survive and thrive as a nation by being a team. We will fail as a species if we do not accept the personal responsibility to each do our job.
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@billbeeb1803 I do too, Bill. Earlier, this year, my wife told our daughter not to drive on a particularly dangerous undivided highway, even though its posted speed limit of 35 MPH was also posted as being "strictly enforced". She did what she pleased anyway. A 19 year old man, doing as he pleased, and who later tested DUI, drove his 4 door F150 over the double yellow line at over 70 MPH straight on into our daughter's car. She was dead within an hour, leaving behind a one year daughter of her own. He's in jail. I suppose that is dramatic, Bill, but it is true. Love your kids while you can.
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@billbeeb1803 He said ""Parents should be making those decisions." It's the last thing he says and where I feel he is wrong. And he talks about data, but neither he nor anyone has time in the context of a press conference to quote it sufficiently to support their propositions. This is why you don't bet your child's health on what the Governor says, because he is an attorney by profession, a busy man with a wide set of responsibilities, and we should not defer to him over a child's pediatrician as to that child's medical history and their vulnerability to a serious reaction to COVID. I've seen enough people who refused vaccination, contracted COVID, had their survival instinct overcome their reticence to go to the hospital, and admit it would have been prudent to get vaccinated. As a parent, I want to know if my child has a low risk of long-term consequences if they catch COVID at school, because they probably are going to catch it while not being vaccinated. If you think that is over sensitive, perhaps it has to do with my experience as a foster parent, when I was taking care of children of parents with a criminal background. Not a good situation in which to commit a serious parenting error.
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@billbeeb1803 A parent does have jurisdiction over what their kids do on their own property and when in their direct custody. A man's home is his castle. Neighbors who both have kids who are friends who play together can come to an agreement on shared rules, or they cannot, but there needs to be at least a one-time conversation. They are public property, subject to the jurisdiction of a combination of the elected school board and the State and the Nation per the laws. Schools can have dress codes to enforce decency and the common good, in this case, public health. School districts might consider setting up mask free school spaces for teachers and students who are OK with that. I am concerned for them, but clearly some want that choice accommodated, and we should do that when we reasonably can. But likewise, schools can also set up school spaces with strict public health rules for those who can agree with that. The Governor should restrain himself and let parents and local districts work this out. That approach is called subsidiarity, a principle of Catholic Social Teaching, something the Governor, as a Catholic, should take seriously. He draws undue attention to himself on this matter.
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