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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree, a lot more people are ignoring the warnings [/quote]

Right. Because it’s totally stupid to lock up healthy people. We should quarantine elderly/unhealthy and get on with our lives!![/quote]

With a disease that allows asymptomatic people to be contagious, you can't know who's healthy.  Getting on with your lives may mean ending somebody else's.  Not only does it put at risk every single person you come into contact, but every person they come into contact with as well.

But of course, it's "totally stupid" to consider somebody else's survival to be as important as not disrupting your preferred activities.

I'd like to know, if you do get sick, getting on with your lives, are you going to fend for yourself, or are you going to seek medical help, endangering medical personnel and taking care/resources away from other people who may have gotten sick despite doing whatever they could to avoid the disease?[/quote]

No. I pay outrageous health insurance premiums to subsidize all the people that would be uninsurable without a group plan (aka all the high risk people for covid.) So on the off chance I need health care I will definitely be taking it. [/quote]

Gee, I thought my health insurance was expensive, but I guess I've got a bargain, because I know my premiums aren't enough to buy even one person's life, let alone an unknown number.  What's the going rate for a life?[/quote]

Reading comprehension fail.

I was simply saying I pay for my own healthcare and subsidize others, so I won’t hesitate to get care if I do need it. [/quote]

But presumably you were responding to my question which was addressed to those who needed health care because they felt that "living their life" (partying with friends, antiquing,  etc.), was more important than the lives of everybody they came in contact with (including the health care personnel they might eventually ask to save their life).  Do you feel that your insurance premiums justify you deliberately putting your convenience over somebody else's life?

I hope that everybody who gets sick gets the best care possible and has a successful outcome.  However, I would prefer that people stay healthy in the first place.  I know that the more people who are sick, the more strain is put on the health care available, worsening probable outcomes.  Moreover, I know that even under optimal health care, some people will die (and not just the sick and those with underlying conditions).

Every contact you have with anybody else potentially puts you and them at risk.  It also jeopardizes everybody you come into contact with and everybody they come into contact with.  You cannot predict who will be affected.  In any given interaction, you're right, the chances that either one of you is contagious is negligible and there probably won't be an adverse consequence.  However, every single interaction you have,  every single interaction they have (which you may have no way of knowing) increases the odds of contagion.  Those who ignore guidelines are essentially playing Russian Roulette, but pointing the gun at everybody they interact with.  Maybe you feel entitled to take that risk for yourself, but nothing entitles you to take it for others.[/quote]

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