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05-20-2020, 4:53pm | #1961 | ||||||
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Of course not. I’ll take simple reasonable precautions though. I generally obey speed limits. Driving 30 on a highway isn’t reasonable or safe for myself or those around me.
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2.9 million Americans will die this year... same as last year and the year before that
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Oh, that’s right, nobody cares about those deaths, they’re okay. |
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No highway at all 30 or less everywhere Because something is not infectious, does not mean it is not contagious. Think of the habits or hobbies you have that originated with your parents. Drinking? Smoking? Speeding? Toking? Racing? Boating? Skiing? Rock climbing? Parachuting? ...whatever All of these put you and others at risk. Hell a staircase or escalator can put others at risk. The fact that I don't wear a mask, does not mean I am not compassionate or concerned for others. What is does mean is that the risk of me getting or passing along Covid, based on weeks and weeks of what has been learned, is about equal to me getting in a car accident, knocking an old lady over in the grocery store, or hitting someone with a golf ball. It is not binary. It is not all caution or all recklessness. I can be cognizant without exercising unnecessary caution and unnecessary risk. |
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Smoking is a choice that the user hopefully understands the risks. And it’s legal, like you said. A novel virus is something that’s only reasonably controllable until there’s a cure or vaccine. Take reasonable, simple precautions until. That should go for everyone but you can’t fix stupid, so people will die. |
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The virus mutates quickly and science hasn’t figured out how to control it. It’d help if the populace cooperated more. |
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Many viruses “burn out” when 60% or more of a population has had it, aka herd immunity. Why would this virus be totally different? If it’s not, we may be prolonging the pandemic with all the precautions. The truth is we don’t know. Neither do the “experts.” They’re the same “experts” who said, with absolute certainty, that Florida would be as bad as Italy. They were dead wrong on that prediction, and have even admitted they don’t even know why they were wrong. |
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What about the seasonal flu? Where is the "cure" or "vaccine" for it? Quote:
No. "reasonable, simple precautions" for the common cold and seasonal flu have always included washing your hands regularly, and curtailing your exposure to others during cold and flu season if you are in a high risk group. The government CANNOT protect those who go out and perform a "YouTube stunt" of licking a toilet seat in a public place, so they should not even try. Yes, those are the stupid ones, and all of the freedoms of everyone else in society should not be taken away because they are stupid. Think of it this way, should we outlaw trains because some people can't stop themselves from "train surfing", and a percentage of them die every year? These are 100% preventable deaths too, if only those people weren't so dumb. Should we punish everyone for the idiocy of those people ONLY because we know dumb people exist? You might also want to keep in mind, when Hitler revoked all individual rights, his justification for doing so was it was "For the Fatherland!", in other words, "for the greater good". Communism is built on the same principle, individual rights should be surrendered for "the greater good". |
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As far as I know, they’re still trying to figure out a cure for the common cold and better flu vaccines. I may be wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time. Now I’m going to watch some comedy. I could use a laugh. |
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That has always been true but until March most people didn't take those recommendations seriously. Until COVID you still had assholes coming to work sick and infecting everyone else in the office, sneezing into their hands and then shaking yours, etc. It was a hell of a way to get there, but if all that changes going forward and these sorts of common sense practices stick that will be a small silver lining in this Jupiter-sized storm cloud.
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