It blows my mind the nonsense people will post while using their *real name*. Do they not realize how bad it makes them look to be anti-vax at this point in medical history?
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I've parroted this point before, but it seems a lot of people are a bit dense on this subject.
There's a list of things that are necessary - things that MUST be done despite the risk. They are going to cause a certain amount of infections that we have to live with. These are things like school. hospitals, grocery stores. People need to have somewhere to send their kids so they can keep the economy going, and so society as a whole doesn't lose a year of education. I hope I don't need to explain why hospitals and grocery stores need to stay open. We NEED these places to operate for society to function. You simply can't close them, so you just need to calculate them into your equation of what to do next. That's the baseline infection rate.
Things we WANT to do, we can live without. We need to reduce infections from these categories. Anything allowed from this category will be added to the baseline. That total can't go above what our hospitals can handle. *character limit*
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The problem is that your dangerous actions endanger people outside of your little circle. Do you also advocate for people who see a drunk driver to "mind their own biz"?
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These false arguments are missing a little bit of critical thinking that would invalidate them. These places are considered essential, meaning "yeah, there's a good chance of spreading the disease, but if we don't allow it it could cause irreplicable damage" Would you also suggest closing the hospitals? Probably not, because I think we can all agree that even though you have a higher-than-average chance of catching COVID-19 there, they are necessary.
You need to think about it like this - what's the total spread of things that NEED to stay open, and how much on top of that spread can we allow for stuff we WANT to do. You don't stop paying rent because you want a cheeseburger from McDonalds that's cheaper than rent and you cant afford both - you forgo the cheeseburger because rent is a necessary thing even if it is expensive.
Getting together for the holidays is something you WANT to do, not NEED to do.
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Why, planning on committing a crime?
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Too many irresponsible people on both side for opening it to work.
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@Barriecure do you also complain that clothes aren't voluntary?
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If you ever filled out taxes or gotten a driver's licence, they already have your phone number and your name. Do you really think the government cares if you were at Giovanni's last night from 6-8? What privacy are you really protecting?
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@JBF At Walmart you're generally not sticking things into your mouth. Or maybe you are - I'm not judging.
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@notree spreading a deadly disease across the country, killing loved ones doesn't affect us?
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