‘Wrong country, comrade’: Robert Reich wants less ‘personal freedom’ and more ‘collective freedom’

Robert Reich apparently doesn’t like the “personal freedom” argument, opting for something else:

Can we please start talking less about the personal freedom to not get tested or vaccinated, and more about the collective freedom to not get sick or die from Covid?

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 14, 2022

“Collective freedom”? Yikes! Orwell couldn’t have come up with a better term:

There is no such thing as “collective freedom”.

The smallest minority group in any nation is, and always will be, the individual. https://t.co/JTf3WHaZEw

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) January 14, 2022

There is no such thing as "collective rights" and individual rights trump all.

Get over it. https://t.co/xXTbq07IHi

— Cincy Nomad – No Vaccine Passports (@CincyNomad) January 14, 2022

I'll never give up my individual freedom for the interest of the collective. https://t.co/IUZw7SKJBE

— David Vainqueur (@True_Canuck1) January 14, 2022

I'm pro-vax, but jeez — "collective freedom." Somebody's always got to embody the worst caricature of what they imagine is their side. https://t.co/5gOK3TLbSM

— Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) January 14, 2022

The tell here is that you know what "personal freedom" is. "Collective freedom" is, at best, an abstraction. https://t.co/DnwmokKpBy

— Lionel Mandrake (@LMandrakeJr) January 14, 2022

Making the concept of freedom arbitrary is exactly the intent.

Sometimes you have to step back and appreciate just how backwards this is.

According to all current data, the vaccinated are a greater threat to the unvaccinated, yet they insist on framing this as if it's the opposite. https://t.co/ewD7UigtXQ

— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) January 14, 2022

How about the collective freedom of the unvaxed to not have to deal with your insane opinions about how communists would handle this situation. https://t.co/RbZ62JMdxX

— John Cardinal (@jorica207) January 14, 2022

Scratch a Dem and you’ll find a commie. Every time. https://t.co/ycslpsbK1r

— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) January 14, 2022

You’re totally free to avoid getting and dying from Covid. Nothing is stopping you from sequestering yourself away in a cocoon of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. No one and no rule is curtailing that.

— Doyle (@doylecjd) January 14, 2022

you're not entitled to not catching a cold https://t.co/JB0Zll97UI

— Рис V ☦️ (@Ecclesia_Rei) January 14, 2022

Wrong country, comrade. https://t.co/sZE7zROvSY

— Probably Mulder’s Intern’l House of Pandemicakes (@banishedprotein) January 14, 2022

Bob, there’s really nothing I or anyone can do to keep you from getting sick. It’s a virus. I’m sorry, they lied to us all.

The best any of us can do is stay home if we’re sick, wash our hands, take therapeutics (which is what the shot really is), and accept this is endemic. https://t.co/N489IMExGy

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) January 14, 2022

Common sense has no home in the head of “collective freedom” proponents like Robert Reich.