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Does free speech exist in USA? Can you say what you want?

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Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
Not without being discriminated no. We saw what happened during covid with those who didn't wanna take the vaccine. Looking at what happened in the US if you were against vaccines made me really see how dark the reality is and that the people have been stripped of their HUMAN rights and no one can do anything about it or they are silenced. Absolutely terrifying.
@Queendragonfly No, in the case of worldwide pandemic, if the country is frantically trying to eradicate a disease that is causing deaths, refusing to take precautions is selfish. Insisting on the right to possibly infect others is [b]crazy[/b]. In some parts of the world, some such people were being incarcerated. In the U.S., people were asked to wear masks, observe distances and in some industries either be vaccinated [b]and/or[/b] agree to test regularly.

That’s hardly being stripped of one’s rights. The U.S. was rid of many diseases (smallpox, polio, tuberculosis) largely because of vaccinations. Many of those diseases and others have made a reappearance here because of the anti-science folks turning a health crisis into a personal freedom issue.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard I never said we shouldn't take precautions. Forcing injections on people though that's something else. Especially when it became mandatory and not people's own choice over their bodies.

You're speaking about what your government wanted you to say. And you can't even see it. That's some high level manipulation.

But for your information, while your state forced themselves on their citizens, there was a free choice elsewhere in the world except the fact that science supported keeping social distance. Which didn't harm people the way vaccine enforcement did.

"The anti science folks" you sound scared. What do you actually know about the opposite side except rumors from your government to harass and humiliate those who remind everyone that you all should have a choice over your own body?
@Queendragonfly Perhaps it’s because I’m of a different generation and can remember classmates who were polio survivors, even 5-10 years after vaccines were available . And you can relate fear to whatever conspiracy theories you’ve picked up on right wing sites. I have much more reason to be afraid than you, because it’s my country and I know its history; I’ve [b]lived[/b] through some of it. But I look at it this way: with all the white doctors and professionals, techies, receiving the vaccines—these are [b]not[/b] folks the U.S. wants to kill off. And among my own family & friends, I lost people to the virus itself—no one to the vaccine.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard US and your sides, ugh, so tiring. Can't you ever discuss something without thinking someone is this or that? Or is it just me who do that?
@Queendragonfly You don’t live here, so you don’t understand. I can’t help you with that.