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When HIV was spreading we didn’t lock people out from having sex - you made your own decisions based on your risk tolerance and accepted the consequences of your actions.  This lockdown nonsense has gone too far.   Whether we like it or not, the only way we return to any semblance of normal is to accept the virus as part of our lives.  A vaccine doesn’t make covid go away - having some damn common sense and taking sensible precautions is what works.  Go to work, go to school, live your lives.  If you are susceptible or high risk, act accordingly.[/quote]

The comparison to HIV is not logical since people can control if they do/don't have sex.  But I can't control what my co-workers do and no matter how hard I protect myself, I can get covid from them.  Let's say I'm someone at high risk for covid, what do you suggest I do to act accordingly?  Unless people at high risk for serious covid issues start to receive disability from the government, how do you suggest they live their lives when they have to work and pay their bills like everyone else?

If I'm high risk do I need to "find something new" and switch to a career in which I can 100% telework? Sure, ok, [i]I[/i] can probably do that.  But [i]I'm[/i] a college-educated, white, upper class lady with a world of options and opportunities.  Funny how often the people in this country who are at high risk for covid death have these high risk health conditions because their socioeconomic condition in life have made them more susceptible to them.  This is the same group of people with less options to "act accordingly."

Do we need to be in lockdown forever?  No, absolutely not.  I live in state where schools have been open for nearly two months now and the numbers keep getting better in my county.  So clearly there are ways to work with covid.  But we as a society and our government need to do better for the higher risk folk before we say everyone needs to just live their lives and screw the people who are the collateral damage from that because hey, they didn't act accordingly to protect themselves. [/quote]

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