Andrew Bolt: Covid nags aren’t satisfied to worry about themselves

Covid nags like radio host Virginia Trioli think your children should be forced to wear face masks, even if you don’t.

So many Australians no longer respect personal boundaries. Many even think your children should be forced to wear face masks, even if you don’t.

Listen to ABC radio hosts such as Virginia Trioli, who are upset that recommendations by state and federal chief medical officers to wear face masks, now that more than 30,000 Australians are infected with Covid-19, have not become a government order.

Trioli sounds particularly upset that schoolchildren are not forced to mask, even though just 12 of the 11,000 Australians who have died from the virus were aged under 10 – and many reportedly had underlying conditions.

Of course, children can help spread the virus, but surely we have now learned the danger of letting governments make big decisions about our health that are best left to ourselves.

We suffered absurdly strict lockdowns from risk-averse governments – even bans on going to the beach – that we’d never have imposed on ourselves, and rightly.

Look now. How many people are wearing masks? Few judge it’s worth it.

Is it really the job of government to force them – and their children – to do something they don’t choose for themselves?

To the scolds, just be satisfied that you protect yourselves.