Posted on 11/23/2020 10:58:03 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
To ask the question is to answer it.
There is no such thing as a world without risk, you have to evaluate the pros and cons based on your own situation, and act accordingly, which of course, isn’t news to you.
But our elites, and the bawling sheep who listen to them have come to believe, or act as if they believe in two things that can’t be fully true:
1) they know what measures can be taken to “stop the spread” of the virus
2) there are no negative consequences to the list of things that will “stop the spread”.
But I think you asked a fair question: what are other FReepers doing?
Me, I’m going to work, and living my life as normally as possible, but avoiding needless exposure. No no indoor dining, no movie theaters (even if they were open), but we really didn’t do that much of those things before the ‘Rona. Oh, and we’re having Thanksgiving. Governor Newsome can pound sand.
I already am defying the law and no complying. I’m 65. I’m told, although I disagree, that I am in the highest most extreme risk category.
Listen, our generation survived polio, measles (which I’ve had twice), german measles, chicken pox, and various other maladies. Personally, I’ve had malaria, dengue fever, and cancer. They now want to scare me with a little virus which in my category has a 99.5% SURVIVAL rate?
Live your life.
Freedom is where it is at...live free.
Great post.. ty
Sadly— generations of Americans have allowed DC to practice financial pedophilia for so long, that the answer is obvious...
FREEPers are a different breed. we would all give our lives for our offspring to taste and live in AMERICA...
But non FREEPers have just refused to believe that anything other than their immediate political interests mattered.
blind to the creep of evil in their own schools, media, etc... they have allowed themselves to be tricked, or angered into literally destroying themselves and their own families....
We have refused to see the evidence in front of us... the corruption has feasted far too long.
our own youth believe they are royalty. Entitled to sit back and do nothing; they do not create or earn anything— but yet they expect to do as they please as others feed them, house them, care for them...... and yet they claim to hate their own country for slavery....
WOW
Also, if you're 65 and healthy, you probably won't even notice that you have COVID, if you actually get it, which you won't.
Frankly, this is a stupid question to begin with, because it is predicated on the notion that COVID is some unusually dangerous, contagious, deadly "disease". It isn't. Like many people, I am really tired of having to live the lie that is face diapers and social distancing and arbitrary "lockdowns", ALL of which are clearly ineffective, since COVID supposedly continues to run rampant after nearly 9 MONTHS of doing all this stupid crap. You know what the reality is? COVID was never anything more than a bad flu, and the alleged "massive surge in cases" is nothing more than industrial grade b.s. resulting from the widespread use of testing which is known to be ridiculously inaccurate.
But by all means, let's keep living the lie. Before much longer, I'm sure people like me will be getting locked up for simply suggesting that COVID is a huge steaming pile of propaganda and bullsh*t.
My immunity is so good, most years I don’t get anything.
I’m in my 70’s. F covid. Resist!
YES!and I am in the high risk category.
I’m 82 and wife is 82.
We have no problem interacting with our younger relatives.
They have severe concerns interacting with us.
Yes
“Surprise folks - you’ve already been exposed - many times.”
Agree.
Masks, as they are so ineffectively worn and handled, are likely passing more bugs by contact then they’re blocking. And hand-transmission of the bug seems obvious by actually observing peoples’ touching and handling actions.
Willingly fooling ourselves seems...foolish. Or sheepleish.
‘i’m fine with home schooling and teaching them conservative values’
so we can pencil you in as happy with lockdowns, mask mandates, business closures, and neighbor ratting out neighbor...great...
‘President Trump’s greatest failure was playing along with this hoax to the extent he did.’
yep; in fact, he and Pence bought the crap hook, line, and sinker...he tried walking it back later, and all that did was give the dems ammunition...
Yes, and it’s understandable. The full court press was on from the beginning about how it was an existential threat. I think the response was appropriate for a few weeks.
yes
‘Unless President Trump is reelected, I don’t see that happening.’
a politician, any politician, is not going to be able to get this goddammed genie back in the bottle; multiple layers of edicts and mandates are going to have to be hacked through, like gruesome Gordian knots, and people are going to, well, not to point too fine point on it, reeducated...
in other words, we, as a society, have really fooked ourselves over...
COVID isn’t the killer the propaganda makes it out to be.
For such a massive deadly killer, tens of millions have had to be tested just to find out if they have it. How stupid is that?!
Many children are suffering from the inadequacy of online learning, but I don’t see how my going out to restaurants and shopping malls is going to get the schools open any sooner. If anything, because California is on a county-by-county tier system the more the virus spreads the less likely the schools are to re-open.
So though this is probably not the answer you were asking about, I’m willing to forgo the gym, cut my own hair, avoid indoor dining, buy Christmas gifts online, avoid in-person gatherings with anyone outside my immediate family, wear a mask, and socially distance so the children can go back to normal life sooner. And so the elderly people I might come in contact with do not catch the disease from me (healthy young people like me are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers). And so that I am not saddled with large hospital bills and missed days of work should my case not be so asymptomatic.
I realize this probably isn’t going to win me any popularity points with many Freepers. I know that many of my elders and “betters” would rather that I go back to “normal life” ASAP either because they are struggling business owners or because it would reassure them to see young people out partying. But just as calling a tail a leg does not make it so neither will young people pretending the virus does not exist make it disappear. I wish we could go back to the way things were in 2019 but that’s not the world we live in right now.
Also not all of us young’uns are natural party animals. I avoided bars and drinking-centric parties even before COVID was a thing because drinking for the sake of getting drunk just seemed pointless to me.
In a heart beat.
And i would risk my own life stopping “them” from preventing.. We The People.. from living a “normal” life (free) I have worn a mask about 3 times in public.
So, no one feels bad ...and to avoid unnecessary confrontations... i wear my mask around my chin and or mouth.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin (old white guy)
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