Pro golfer John Rahm, ranked No. 3 in the world, exhibited COVID symptoms of a six-point lead and a hole in one during the PGA Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, on the day he tested positive. It may be concluded that the virus is a stroke enhancer. The medical protocol that forced his withdrawal from the tournament brought on the sessile malaise favored by scientists.

Usufruct, the right to use or enjoy the fruit or profit of something belonging to another, was employed by that craftsman of words, Thomas Jefferson, when he wrote, “The earth belongs in usufruct to the living.”

By earth, he meant soil. Jefferson and Washington, both farmers, recognized that depletion of top soil was a serious problem that would affect the future prosperity of the nation.

Could either have foreseen that the two-party system would place the soil in a quagmire?

The extrajudicial promulgation by Big Brother of a vaccine against the chances one takes in life is doing just that.

The few U.S. Military Academy cadets who have refused to take the vaccine are being punished and ostracized. The goal of West Point is to make everyone fit a mold. When you become a cadet, so the in-house saying goes, “You give up your rights, and earn them back as privileges.” When should someone be forced to give up the right to think for oneself?

Unusufruct - to lose the right to enjoy life on earth.

Rex Redden

South Brewster County