Mar 6, 2021 1 min read

In his op-ed that appeared in the March 3 Observer-Reporter, Judge Andrew Napolitano is looking at the issue of masking from the wrong perspective.

It is not a question of who owns your face, but who owns the air.

The air is common to all, everything on Earth, and this virus is airborne. Just as nobody has a right to pollute the air, nobody has a right to spread or risk spreading an airborne illness.

The judge opines that among the property rights the government has lately denied is the ownership of our bodies.

As a supporter of self-ownership, can I take it, then, that Napolitano will be writing future op-ed pieces favoring abortion? Perhaps also right-to-die legislation? Somehow, I suspect his advocacy for self-ownership does not extend there.

Carole McIntyre

Waynesburg