Quote (JLAudio @ Apr 20 2020 11:19pm)
If you are scared you should stay indoors and self quarantine until you feel comfortable or safe enough to emerge. That is your freedom should you want to do that.
Your fear of being infected has no bearing on whether or not others should go about their daily lives, with precautions taken. You have no right to dictate what others do or do not do, and there is no imaginary right to "not be infected".
The whole "flatten the curve" idea was not to prevent death, but to prevent the healthcare system from being overtaken. Considering hospital admission and intubation is lower than the "forecasts", there is ample supply of beds, which is why you are seeing doctors pay cut and even layoffs in healthcare around the country.
You do what you see fit to survive, and if you don't want to resume life then don't, but please step off what you believe to be the moral high ground by calling others stupid or "stoners" or idiots.
Real people are at risk here, and there NEEDS to be the debate about lives lost versus economic damage and lives lost as a result of that. Suicide hotlines are ringing off the hook, most American middle and lower class folks are one to two paychecks away from disaster. If they do not work, their families do not eat. So step off and start realizing the real cost of this whole thing.
Thanks for listening. Sorry for the rant.
Health care system not getting over whelmed prevents deaths.... I mean they are directly tied together.
No ones dictating what others do here, since no one has authority to do so. Yet the ones who do, have done exactly that.
We can undo economic damage we can't raise the dead.
This post was edited by King Atrhur on Apr 20 2020 09:30pm