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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, let’s say you magically were given the power to prevent all about  40,000 traffic related data lies a year simply by preventing the use of motorized transport (public and private). This will make people significantly less mobile and reduce economic output.

What do you do with your powers?[/quote]

I'm not interested in playing your "but you can ALSO die from THIS thing" games. I'm saying this whole attitude of "[b]heck, let's just YOLO our way through a fcking pandemic because WOO HOO[/b]" is deeply, deeply, disturbing. Especially coming from the folks famous for being pro-life, and being All Life Matters fanatics. Who now seem to be accepting - even welcoming - preventable deaths with what seems to be a big old sht eating grin.

As someone who loves life, and loves other people having the opportunity to live, I find it fcking disturbing. Chilling, in fact. Almost like you're ready to ship old people and the injured and disabled to the crematories before they have even succumbed to your blessed disease.[/quote]

That's a strawman position. I don't know anyone here who is arguing that we should not consider the risks or act in a responsible manner. We just don't think it is helpful to live on the constant edge of paranoia.

Some of us value our sanity even if you don't. [/quote]

Really? You don't know ANYONE?

How about this guy, who you elected president: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/25/opinion/coronavirus-trump-reopen-america.html

Orrrr how about this: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/older-americans-work-coronavirus-151240

Or this one: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/24/covid-19-texas-official-suggests-elderly-willing-die-economy/2905990001/

What about this? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/27/trump-ventilators-coronavirus-cuomo-new-york

It goes on and on and on and on and on. And I can't see how ANYONE feels they are going about a rational life while we have this nihilistic yahoo apparently wiping his butt and calling the smears official policy - we don't have adequate testing, we don't have adequate equipment, we don't have adequate hospital beds, we have almost zero plan or coordination, and we have this orange faced JOKER in the white house looking for all the world like an ACTUAL comic book villain who is telling people to go back to work, go back to school, go back to church.

The rational response is to hide out at home until you feel like the outside world is less hostile - and perhaps, maybe, someone who isn't a malicious criminal with the attention span of a gnat is helping guide the federal response to a PANDEMIC. A PANDEMIC. You can be in the stage of grief where you deny that this is a pandemic. I just saw a news story about a cruise ship with four dead elderly people and a couple hundred sick ones just floating around at sea because there's nowhere they can dock and get treatment for the people who are still alive.[/quote]
As far as your attachments, to each their own. If someone wants to risk what’s out in the world could potentially kill them then that’s on them. If you want to sit in your house and never do anything, then that’s fine too. If you want to sign up and risk your life for your country so that everyone can be free and live the American dream, then that’s fine too.  If you want to jump out of a plane and skydive to the ground, cool. If you want to open your business back up when the president or states allow you cool. If you want to them go to the bar, gym?, store, soccer practice or whatever, cool. Everything has risks. Just hope you don’t die getting there. It is what is is and we all take the risk.[/quote]

you are free to risk your own life as much as you want. it's time for society to rein you in when - as now - you are endangering others with your reckless behavior. just like you can't drunk drive because you have a saucy devil may care attachment to your own existence, going out in public now in an ordinary way puts other people at high risk. during a pandemic. you fcking troll moron.[/quote]
Jesus still loves you. 
Yes I adhere to the rules.  Don’t hang out in a group of 10 or more people, practice social distancing.  But when we open back up in April, I will be back at it, working partying, vacationing, visiting family etc etc etc etc. [/quote]

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