Public Health And Individual Rights

No one has unlimited rights. No one has the right to dump sewage into the water supply. No one has the right to drive on the wrong side of the street. No one has the right to sneeze on the produce section. 

When public health officials set guidelines to limit the spread of serious illness, one might argue successfully that those guidelines impinge upon individual rights. But the rights of the individual cannot override the rights of a community to stay healthy and prosperous. No one has the right to harm others in a vain expression of individual liberty.