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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister lives in Alabama, and they have had school as usual all this year.  Socializing teens as usual - football games, cheer practice, homecoming, parties indoors.  I see all her pictures.  Sometimes a kid or two is wearing a mask but mostly not.

Her husband and one of her kids did get COVID.  As did many of their friends.  But no one had it bad, apparently.  They just aren't worried about it.

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It's cool, they (very possibly) just gave it to someone who gave it to someone who died, and they'll never know.

I know that seems harsh, but it is actually simply factual. It is why we have half a million people dead even WITH most people not living life as usual. I'm a NP to this thread and people talking about how comments like mine are some sort of performative display of martyrdom and superiority and like... I don't understand* how people don't understand that this is not just an individual choice. You can say you're fine getting COVID, and chances are if you're young and otherwise healthy, you will be (though who knows the long term effects), but if caring about others I'll never meet makes me a wild-eyed, beer-barrel-smashing nutcase, so be it.

It is simply factual that, in the US, if you take no or few precautions while interacting with multiple other people who are also acting the way you are, you either don't understand how this virus spreads or you care very little, if at all, about people you haven't formally met. At minimum.

Really don't see any valid counterargument.

*Actually, I kinda do. Lacking and non-cohesive public messaging, with political polarization.[/quote]

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