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There is also a lot of ignorant machismo in this.
It's no coincidence that the same people who need a gun to feel viral are the ones who engage in this display of ignorance.
‘I Refuse To Live In Fear’ Is Just An Attempt To Excuse Selfish Behavior
wow....what a way to project.Load of bullshit when compared to a highly communicable disease that rips through entire facilities of elderly.
If you havent been keeping in touch with your elderly relatives online and thru windows and other means all this time....and think that a visit on Thanksgiving will 'cure' their loneliness and prevent their suicide...that's is a very delusional idea.
Convenient to your narrative, yet wholly false.
Did you read the exchange? Give me a break, my entire family is 3000 miles away so we FaceTime, etc. And my 84 yr old mother lives with my sisters.wow....what a way to project.
Got any family in nursing homes you haven't seen a while? hmmm, might want to talk to them.
My grandparents still write letters and use landline. They've never had a cell phone or email, so writing long letters is good for us and keeps us all in touch. Then on holidays, we take the time to see them.
I suggest you start visiting a few relatives....couldn't hurt.
Come back when you're capable of stringing together enough words to give us an example of these 'privileges' you would strip from other citizens, Comrade.Sorry, little man, you seem very confused about what transpired.
Irrelevant
It's not a claim, it's fact. People spreading a highly communicable disease present a far higher risk to their elderly loved ones AND every other person in that facility. If you dont understand this, I suggest you listen to the grammar school kids they interview every day on the local news that can maybe explain it to you better.
You are 100% wrong that not visiting your elderly relatives is more risky than doing so. And they arent alone and in-person visiting isnt the only way to interact with them.
Such moronic statements, useless except to avoid the discussion and facts.
Your posts on this are a giant, overwhelming fail.
Please don't judge. Everybody's situation is different.
What city are you in?Our area is over 70% elderly. It is one of the MOST resistant and non-compliant areas in the country in terms of not wearing masks, not locking themselves indoors, etc. People go out and about, a lot of sunlight and fresh air. Continuing their lives. Only some corporate stores and restaurants have "wear masks" signs. Many locally owned restaurants and stores refused to close down, refuse to follow the 25%, 50% seating rules etc. Because this is a tourist area that people travel to from around the state and USA - particularly since we did not close our beaches, shut everything down etc, there is "exposure" to people from everywhere too. I'd never seen as many tourists here when most of the country was ordered closed - including from major nearby Florida cities like Tampa. They flooded here then instead.
So this area should have astronomical covid-19 death rates, right? But we do not know anyone - or even know anyone who knows anyone - who has died of covid-19. Not one person. We ask often "do you know anyone who has died of covid-19?" The answer is always "no." However, the elderly and others continue to die otherwise as it normal - and likely more than normal as other medical care and examinations were ordered suspended to be ready for the mass covid-19 infections - that never came because people were NOT following the "maximize the spread of covid-19 edicts.
Just because the plutocrats making TRILLIONS off the shutdowns tell you something a million times 24/7 day after week after month after month after month thru the TV stations, newspapers and Internet outlets they own - banning any other opinions and fact-claims - doesn't make it true. But it does to most Americans who were indoctrinated by TV and now the Internet every minute of their life from birth.
Up until April of this year, it was ALWAYS advised for flu-like diseases to get outdoors in the sun and for fresh air. The BIG lie is the notion that it is irrelevant whether 1 covid-19 virus or 1,000,000,000 covid-19 virus get into your body - which is what happens when staying indoors and believing a piece of cloth and 6 foot distance protects you in a WalMart store that has 5,000+ customers a day.
EVERYONE inhales "lethal" virus by the millions with every breathe they take. The question is always a race against time. Can you body figure how to kill those virus before they kill you. The more lethal virus you inhale, the sicker you will get and may even lose the race - and then your life. Fresh air outdoors has a tiny fraction of viruses that compound indoors because of air flow and because sunlight slaughters viruses F A S T! The covid-19 rules are DESIGNED to infect as many people as possible - and to kill as many people as possible. It takes an IQ of 80 and the ability to actually being an independent thinking human to understand that.
I have more than one child. They don't hear much about Santa Claus. Their mother tends to do more of the parenting, particularly when infants and very young. Other adults assist in various ways. I would guess they would figure the Santa Claus character is no different than other cartoon characters. We are not like other parents. Our children are allowed very little and highly supervised television time and later limited and supervised internet access. They are highly supervised and guided. Developing social skills also is very managed, directed and specific.What city are you in?
I'd be willing, Bene. I would support the removal of ALL their privileges. I would support fines, I would support imprisonment. I would support exile. I would support them being tied to a board and vaccinated by force, once the vaccine is available.
On second thought, perhaps support is too strong a word. I would simply have as few shits to give if it happened to them as they had to give about the people they came into contact with. None. Zero. Not a one. **** every last one of them.
This is incorrect.
I'd just love to see you prove this.
The simple truth is not everybody shares the same opinion of the severity of the pandemic. There are conflicting reports and some just choose to believe the worse case scenario and others believe in a more positive approach.Some people can't be counted on, It's that simple. Chips are down, time to pull together and they cross their arms and refuse to be inconvenienced. "I don't want to and you can't make me!" They use magic words, 'personal responsibility', 'refuse to live in fear', 'freedom and rights blablahblah', it's all justcovering up a childish, stubborn refusal to be inconvenienced.It's affected my relationship with two people already. I won't forget who didn't do their part when everyone else tried to be part of the solution.
If masks work why are we seeing an uptick in cases ?And there it is. You just made the OP's point.
Go back and read what it actually says, not what you feel that it says. That includes the article.
The simple truth is the severity isn't a matter of opinion. It's severe. It's just how much importance you put on it being severe.The simple truth is not everybody shares the same opinion of the severity of the pandemic. There are conflicting reports and some just choose to believe the worse case scenario and others believe in a more positive approach.
Ever heard of equations with multiple factors? Complicated, I know.If masks work why are we seeing an uptick in cases ?
So simple even a five year-old can figure it out. Why can't adults do the same?There's a virus killing people in our community, and there's no way to tell who is infected until symptoms show a week or more after they become infections. If everyone wears a mask, then we prevent the infection from being spread so far, by the masked infected people. The uninfected people who wear a mask have an extra layer of protection from the infected ones.
The premise of the OP is that it is morally wrong to try to manipulate a persons behavior by using guilt as that tool. That apparently means to Progressives that they should virtue signal and shame anyone who does not agree with the mask mandates . You cant make up this kind of irony lmao
Exposing yourself and vulnerable others to an avoidable risk for one day of partying and gluttony is irresponsible and stupid. Have your 'human contact' when it's safe to do so-or suffer the same consequences as 260,000 Americans and their grieving relatives have done. After this recklessness of Thanksgiving and Christmas with millions travelling all over the country is over, you'll be seeing deaths in numbers like a bad Steven King novel; except they won't be fictional. And it could be your family.Love means willing the good of another. Human contact and seeing your family are good.
My grandparents have been around longer than I have. They're perfectly capable of judging risks for themselves.
That is why we have to have laws. Laws exist for people like that who cannot be trusted to show the most basic respect for other people's lives.
‘I Refuse To Live In Fear’ Is Just An Attempt To Excuse Selfish Behavior
Nope. It is utterly selfish to demand others bow to your will.Exposing yourself and vulnerable others to an avoidable risk for one day of partying and gluttony is irresponsible and stupid. Have your 'human contact' when it's safe to do so-or suffer the same consequences as 260,000 Americans and their grieving relatives have done. After this recklessness of Thanksgiving and Christmas with millions travelling all over the country is over, you'll be seeing deaths in numbers like a bad Steven King novel; except they won't be fictional. And it could be your family.
No, it's those idiots who refuse to adhere to common sense precautions because of some perverted idea that they are being subject to government 'tyranny' or some other such nonsense, who are running around, maskless, potentially spreading the disease around even further. I should thank people for being reckless morons? I don't think so. If you think being cautious and staying safe is cowardice, I don't know what to say to you that wouldn't get me banned. You want to risk death, be my guest, but don't expect me to follow suit and act like a fool. I leave that course of action to the libertarian idiots and their whining 'freedom!'.Nope. It is utterly selfish to demand others bow to your will.
I choose to roll the dice. Thus I will live or die and will be immune to this thing soon, or already am.
Once there are suficent people immune the disease will stop. Herd immunity.
You cowards should thank us for making the world safe for you again.
Nope. It is utterly selfish to demand others bow to your will.
I choose to roll the dice. Thus I will live or die and will be immune to this thing soon, or already am.
Once there are suficent people immune the disease will stop. Herd immunity.
You cowards should thank us for making the world safe for you again.
I don't know what to say to you that wouldn't get me banned.
Exposing yourself and vulnerable others to an avoidable risk for one day of partying and gluttony is irresponsible and stupid. Have your 'human contact' when it's safe to do so-or suffer the same consequences as 260,000 Americans and their grieving relatives have done. After this recklessness of Thanksgiving and Christmas with millions travelling all over the country is over, you'll be seeing deaths in numbers like a bad Steven King novel; except they won't be fictional. And it could be your family.
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