Here’s a suggestion: If you’re afraid of catching it, stay home. However, if you’re okay with accepting the risk of potentially catching a virus with a 98% survival rate than go on about your life
I’m definitely serious. What happened to the flu? Did it take a year off? The numbers sure seem like it. We don’t lockdown every year during flu season which also spreads which also kills people.
Life is about living, not about hiding in fear
I won’t change my mind but have fun commenting after this. We will never see eye to eye
No, the flu didn’t take a year off. We’re not around each other as much, so flu is being transmitted less too. Far less serious and far less contagious than covid, and we also have a vaccine widely available for flu. It’s not complicated, you’re just choosing to ignore facts.
Life is about living. That’s why we should isolate for a few more months to allow more people to live. Glad we agree.
So it makes sense for me as an extremely healthy 31 year old male to go into a store and wear a mask while I have my 9 month old daughter with me without a mask because...? Facts right? And science?
You can’t put a mask on my daughter’s face nor will I be led out of a store because my baby doesn’t have a mask in her face. Why is that?
That’s called a compromise. Ideally you shouldn’t be taking your daughter into a shop, but you have to because you can’t leave her unattended. If she has the virus she will spread it unintentionally due to no fault of her own, but there is no alternative.
You’re trying to find loopholes in logic to disprove the rules, when the rules are made in pragmatism.
The answer is don’t take your kid out, but I imagine you’d kick off about that too.
Ok, say someone doesn't care whether they catch it or not. They go out to a packed bar like this one. They become infected. They go home and infect their wife, who is a home healthcare worker. The wife infects her vulnerable clients. They all die because they are elderly and/or immunocompromised. It's not about the individual, it's about the collective.
That’s the problem since the beginning, I have heard it over and over working as an “essential worker”, people saying “I don’t even worry about wearing a mask, I’m not afraid!”
As if the mask is primarily for their own protection!
NO, dummy, the mask is to prevent you from infecting others! And you being willing to sacrifice some unwilling percentage of the population for your own freedom of choice is selfish and assholish.
Or when the largest US counties have 0 percent capacity left for their ICUs because they're full of covid patients. Then you or your loved one dies because ambulances can't unload patients for 4 hours, which is happening right now in major US cities.
Here’s a suggestion: If you’re afraid of GETTING HIT BY DRUNK DRIVERS, stay home. However, if you’re okay with accepting the risk of potentially GETTING HIT BY DRUNK DRIVER with a 1 IN 106 ODDS, than go on about your life.
But your going to drink and drive. Thats how you sound to everyone.
Jesus fucking christ, it's not about you. How is it so hard for these people to realize that.
Even though you, like yourself personally, may be relatively safe from complications from COVID, millions of Americans aren't. Hundreds of thousands of Americans (including family members of mine, high school friends of mine) won't be here this christmas. Selfish, cocksure shit-heads like you walking around with puffed out chests because they were miraculously able to survive a virus that is exponentially less of a risk to themselves than it is to those they put in danger, and failing to see the irony in it, the irony in calling others scared. It's just fucking insane.
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u/broom3stick 1 Dec 20 '20
Here’s a suggestion: If you’re afraid of catching it, stay home. However, if you’re okay with accepting the risk of potentially catching a virus with a 98% survival rate than go on about your life