# The First Amendment, COVID Restrictions and Individual Rights

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118109563908247924
- Source account: [@AaronSiriSG](https://x.com/AaronSiriSG)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:54
- Published: 2026-11-05
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights) When you think about civil and individual rights, First Amendment, the right to free speech, the assembly, right?

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=7) That was passed and adopted by the states in 1791.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=12) What's the First Amendment intended to do?

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=14) To restrict government from infringing on those rights.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=17) You think life was easy in 1791? What do you think life was like in 1791?

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=22) You think it was easy? You think it was all hunky-dory?

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=25) Life in s- 1791 was brutal. Brutal. You want to talk about disease, pestilence, famine, war?

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=35) You want to talk about a life that is no electricity, no running water, no sewer, nothing.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=41) And that amendment was passed for times that are more brutal than that.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=46) And here comes a virus. And every right you have is basically taken away.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=53) And Americans are like, "Take it. Take it away."

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=59) That is what outraged me because look, what was the whole point of this country? What, what, what is America born out of?

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=67) In my view, it's born out of the, uh, the idea that every other government that preceded it got it wrong in the following sense.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=76) Your life should not be dictated by a king or a dictator or a, a, a politburo or a central authority.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=83) It's the idea that you are born with inalienable rights.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=86) You should be able to choose your destiny, including what risks you want to take.

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=92) Individual rights come with risks. Letting Joe Rogan say what he wants on this podcast comes with risks.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=98) Letting you practice what religion you want, assemble with who you want, that comes with risks.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=102) Let me tell you, a lot of risks. Yeah. Okay?

[1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TICmaPlmPytl/en/the-first-amendment-covid-restrictions-and-individual-rights?t=105) But the greater risk is always ceding that right to the government, because once you do, you don't get it back often.