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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elrich - Missing the point that in a free society, the government should be least restrictive as possible, not the most.  Rates are back to October and only headed downward with vaccines, but restrictions have not gone back to October levels.[/quote]

Yes, but during a pandemic when individuals cannot take personal responsibility, we need the government to step in.
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We obviously feel differently. But I think you're wrong.  You may disagree with my risk threshold.  But its still wrong to impose your risk threshold on me against my will[/quote]

But then you are imposing your risk on other people.[/quote]

In some ways, yes, every action anyone does may have an impact on anyone else in the community.  Nothing we do happens in a vacuum.

But the difference between the two is that when I exercise my rights, you still have a choice in how you want to mitigate the risk and how you want to live according to your own personal risk threshold.

In the reverse, I have no choice, and your risk threshold is imposed on me.

There's a difference.  If I was a saying 'yes, you must go to a gym.  you must go to a restaurant.  and you prohibited from wearing a mask', then that would be the opposite end of this spectrum.[/quote]

DP. You don't even realize how self-centered your views are. You are rationalizing your less reponsible decisions by talking about risk mitigating - do you realize that the more risks YOU take, the more careful someone else has to be?
For example, if you insist on going somewhere without a mask, that means that the person who is higher-risk and takes things seriously won't be able to go out at all. Many people would just like to go for a masked walk in the park or go to their socially distant farmers market, but if you insist on going out unmasked and bringing your crowds stomping around everywhere and breathing all over the place, then you spoil it for the people who want to go out in public responsibly.
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NP - There is a big difference between asking people to mask, and shutting down their employment, schools, or right to assemble in their homes or churches.  I can get behind masks, but not closures.  This type of quarantining the healthy has never occurred before COVID.  Even during the Spanish Flu, places of business were not shut down, except a few entertainment venues.

Second, your assessment of risk is not grounded in science if you are reluctant to take an outdoor walk without a mask, even if you are high risk.  So, you are asking people to give up their civil liberties in response to your anxiety.   - MPH[/quote]

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