I read an interesting story today. Here's the link:
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/a-teen...dnt-delete-it/
The basic summary is that a 16 year old Wisconsin high school student travelled to Florida nere the beginning of the outbreak on a spring break trip with other students. The trip was cut short and the students went home, but the girl developed respiratory symptoms. At the time, no Covid 19 tests were available, but the symptoms were consistent. She was later admitted to the hospital and put on oxygen as her condition worsened. She was eventually released from the hospital, and recovered. At some point, she was also eventually tested for Covid 19, and the test came back negative. However, doctors informed her that there were a lot of false negatives. According to the story she "missed the window" for a positive test. I have no idea what that means, unless it's a case that she had pretty much fully recovered by the time she was tested and so no virus was in her system.
Either way, she believed that she had Covid 19, and apparently, doctors believed it as well. As this was going on, she periodically posted her story on her Instagram page. Telling about her experience with Covid 19, and showing such things as her in the hospital with an oxygen mask.
One day, a knock on the door. There was a deputy sheriff, threatening to arrest her for disorderly conduct if she didn't take down the Instagram posts. She did so. She later discovered that the deputy was there at the request of the school district, who said she could not have Covid 19 because, at the time, there had been no positive tests. The posts were, according to the school district, a ploy for attention, and absolutely false. Since they could lead to panic, they were declared disorderly conduct, and they called the sheriff's department to threaten the girl with arrest.
The family got a lawyer, who demanded an apology from the school district, and a promise that there would be no more threats of arrest. This was not forthcoming, and so the lawyers filed a lawsuit.
The lawyers representing the girl are from a group called the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. I thought that was a rather interesting name, and so I went to their website. As I expected, they were a non-partisan group, but one that I think most people would label as "right wing". The cases they talked about certainly would not be "left wing". They might be libertarian, but generally of the right wing slant of libertarians.
And that is what I found interesting. I thought back to my youth. Any story that involves, "teenager sues school district for infringing freedom of speech" would be labelled a left wing story. The authoritarian school district threatening her arrest would have been labelled right wing, and the group defending her would have been the ACLU or some other left wing organization.
Oh how times have changed.
For my part, I'm firmly on the girl's side, so does that make me a right winger or a left winger?
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/a-teen...dnt-delete-it/
The basic summary is that a 16 year old Wisconsin high school student travelled to Florida nere the beginning of the outbreak on a spring break trip with other students. The trip was cut short and the students went home, but the girl developed respiratory symptoms. At the time, no Covid 19 tests were available, but the symptoms were consistent. She was later admitted to the hospital and put on oxygen as her condition worsened. She was eventually released from the hospital, and recovered. At some point, she was also eventually tested for Covid 19, and the test came back negative. However, doctors informed her that there were a lot of false negatives. According to the story she "missed the window" for a positive test. I have no idea what that means, unless it's a case that she had pretty much fully recovered by the time she was tested and so no virus was in her system.
Either way, she believed that she had Covid 19, and apparently, doctors believed it as well. As this was going on, she periodically posted her story on her Instagram page. Telling about her experience with Covid 19, and showing such things as her in the hospital with an oxygen mask.
One day, a knock on the door. There was a deputy sheriff, threatening to arrest her for disorderly conduct if she didn't take down the Instagram posts. She did so. She later discovered that the deputy was there at the request of the school district, who said she could not have Covid 19 because, at the time, there had been no positive tests. The posts were, according to the school district, a ploy for attention, and absolutely false. Since they could lead to panic, they were declared disorderly conduct, and they called the sheriff's department to threaten the girl with arrest.
The family got a lawyer, who demanded an apology from the school district, and a promise that there would be no more threats of arrest. This was not forthcoming, and so the lawyers filed a lawsuit.
The lawyers representing the girl are from a group called the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. I thought that was a rather interesting name, and so I went to their website. As I expected, they were a non-partisan group, but one that I think most people would label as "right wing". The cases they talked about certainly would not be "left wing". They might be libertarian, but generally of the right wing slant of libertarians.
And that is what I found interesting. I thought back to my youth. Any story that involves, "teenager sues school district for infringing freedom of speech" would be labelled a left wing story. The authoritarian school district threatening her arrest would have been labelled right wing, and the group defending her would have been the ACLU or some other left wing organization.
Oh how times have changed.
For my part, I'm firmly on the girl's side, so does that make me a right winger or a left winger?
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