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Vanity question: would you risk getting Covid if it meant that your kids' lives would be "normal"?
11/23/20 | Republicanprofessor

Posted on 11/23/2020 10:58:03 AM PST by Republicanprofessor

So, here is my question. Would you be willing to risk catching Covid if it would mean that your kids and grandkids would have a "normal" life?

I am 65, but otherwise I have no co-mobidities, and I am very healthy. I don't want to get the disease, but I would rather be sick for a few weeks if it would mean that life could get back to normal for my family.

I am sick of my kids suffering inadequate online classes (for college and graduate courses), of cancelled weddings (twice for us thus far), of cancelled summer plans to work in Canada and other cancelled plans and travels. I have been patient to this point, but when my son cancels his wedding for the second time due to new restrictive Covid rules, I have had it.

And I realized I would rather be sick for a few weeks, and probably get over it with a survival rate of 99%, and let my kids get back to their lives.

FReepers are, I believe, often my age or older. What do you think? Would you rather risk your life or not? I think many of you may not be as healthy, so perhaps my view is too extreme.

Because this is what it comes down to, isn't it: the economic and community consequences of the younger workers and families vs. the chance of illness among the elders.

I should also add that I live in a rural area and we are very isolated from anyone with any connection to Covid, so this no doubt has an effect upon my ideas here. The effect upon my children's lives (and so many others) seems far worse overall. Our county had 6 new cases this past week, but still the death toll is only 3 since January. Being rural may be a natural buffer from the disease. I don't want to get it, but I don't want to see anyone's life destroyed by the ramifications of the disease through lockdowns etc.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: absurdvanity; coronavirus; covid; dropdead; forgetitall; kungflu; moogoogaipandemic; vanity; wuhanvirus
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To: Republicanprofessor

Everyone over 65 has the ability to protect themselves if they’re still mobile and live alone, or as couple.

I recommend they do so.

Make your own choices.


61 posted on 11/23/2020 1:12:18 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: khelus

Curious, if a person contracts the ‘rona and gets sick, then their kidneys or heart fails...was it ‘rona that killed them?


62 posted on 11/23/2020 1:17:20 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: JennysCool

“Let’s all remember that this whole thing started with TV footage out of Wuhan showing people in hazmat suits rushing to te aid of people falling in the streets like they’d just been gassed.”

It’s a different virus now.

More contagious, far less lethal. Soon, just another cold.


63 posted on 11/23/2020 1:27:29 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Sicon

‘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.’

there’s a few on this very forum that would be happy turning you into the authorities for ‘incorrect’ thinking...


64 posted on 11/23/2020 1:30:06 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

‘and people are going to, well, not to point too fine point on it, reeducated...’

and based on the grammar of that phrase, probably wouldn’t hurt me to go back to school too...


65 posted on 11/23/2020 1:34:16 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: FormerFRLurker

“Many children are suffering from the inadequacy of online learning”

All the studies say the smart ones suffer no loss of education.

It’s the dumb, or unmotivated that suffer in remote learning.

They don’t learn anything when in school either.

But they all suffer the loss of youthful exploration and friendship.


66 posted on 11/23/2020 1:36:18 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Republicanprofessor

Just found out my 19 month old grandson has Covid, as well as his mom’s ex husband and his wife, and the mom of my former brother-in-law. Our prayer list is growing. God is able and willing.


67 posted on 11/23/2020 1:50:09 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Republicanprofessor

It’s a false choice. Everybody is getting it. Man is NOT God. I learned that when I was five from the deadly chickenpox.


68 posted on 11/23/2020 1:53:34 PM PST by Theophilus (Breathe free or die)
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To: Mariner

Actually, I think the hazmat suits and the “stricken” people were just theater to get the panic going.


69 posted on 11/23/2020 1:59:00 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: Republicanprofessor

If by normal you mean Trump were able to remain president and actually drain the swamp of fraud and crime, I would dive into a pool of COVID.


70 posted on 11/23/2020 2:09:50 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Republicanprofessor

Yes. I like my chances, even though I’m a former smoker and borderline diabetic.


71 posted on 11/23/2020 3:10:52 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart

And over 60!


72 posted on 11/23/2020 3:12:46 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: IrishBrigade

“ in other words, we, as a society, have really fooked ourselves over...”

~~~~~

The cure is already SO much worse than the disease...
Now to turn loose the real weapons...
Starting with all the things you WON’T be allowed without your vaccinations...

Quantas CEO already says he won’t fly you...

Then we have contact tracing (Global?) and mandatory quarantines...

Biblically, we’re prophesied to go down that road only once.

It gets really bumpy from here if this nonsense isn’t stopped.

~Easy


73 posted on 11/23/2020 4:41:05 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Republicanprofessor
Your post doesn't make any sense.You are basing covid on yourselft.This has nothing to do with the cancellations.My son has covid right now.We can do anything we want.No contact.
74 posted on 11/23/2020 5:09:18 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: cuban leaf
Part of my job requires me to go in to gaseous toxic environments, where just a whiff will drop you, and you'll be dead within a literal few minutes, and do work for maybe an hour or 2 at a time.

Kind of unnerving knowing that all around you the environment is waiting to kill you.

The masks we wear are the same as firefighters with a supplied air hose with a SCBA tank emergency spare.

It gets even more unnerving when you have to put on a plastic suit and tape the sleeves to rubber gloves, pant cuffs to rubber boots and the jacket hood gets taped to your mask.
All because a vapor or drop is either corrosive to your skin, or that the vapor will leach into your bloodstream, through your skin...and kill you.

Loooong before we ever heard of coronavirus, I've been extensively trained in proper mask fit up and use.
Every time I go on a job requiring mask use, I go through a 2 hour refresher course.

before Covid, 99% of all doctors and nurses would have told you that surgical masks are strictly for preventing contaminating fluid (aka,sneezing or saliva) from contaminating a sterilized surface.

Before Covid, doctors and nurses knew that the surgical masks didn't protect them.

Now everyone is wearing surgical type masks, simple cloth masks, gators and bandanas.
Oh, and face shields 4" from your face.

I'm sorry, part of my training and job prep is mask fit up. I can't have more than 24 hours growth of facial hair, in order to insure a good face to mask seal.

But now, with the "DEADLIEST" virus in human history, anything over your face is
OKAY

I wear dust masks and or N/R or P95 masks.
I have also taken one of these mask off at the end of the day and had dirt on my face, wear the dust mask was protecting me.

The powers that be try to convince you that virus droplets attach themselves to human exhalation vapors and aerosols and attach themselves to the mask.

The problem is that the virus particle can then transfer it way fiber by fiber through the mask through normal breathing.

I read of a study recently, where 78% of questioned people infected with Covid, were people who wore mask extended periods of time or nearly always.
As length of time decreased, so did the infection percentage.

75 posted on 11/23/2020 5:15:13 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man

Your post touches on my beliefs about this but brings much amplification.

And the heart is this, at least for me: “...strictly for preventing contaminating fluid (aka,sneezing or saliva) from contaminating a sterilized surface.”

Our bodies were designed with a protective covering, epidermis, also known as “skin”. In surgery, our internal parts are being exposed without their protective skin covering. When we are shopping at Safeway, our skin is doing its job.

I see facemasks in public as a purely political thing and not only not helping, but hurting.


76 posted on 11/24/2020 4:38:38 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: khelus

Sorry but my friends perfectly healthy 3 year old is in ICU right now battling a cytokene storm from Covid.

Kids get covid. That’s an outlier but it’s nonsensical to say they don’t get it.


77 posted on 11/26/2020 1:35:28 AM PST by DrewsMum
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To: DrewsMum

How sad. I ought to have been more specific. Children almost never get the Wuhan flu. It is unlike the routine flu in that manner.

However, testing is highly prone to false negatives, and the child might not have the Wuhan flu but something else. Hospitals have a major financial incentive to diagnose a patient as Wuhan flu. Birx has admitted that the conditions for diagnosis are ‘very generous’.

My point was that society ought not be shut down for outliers. That would include asymptomatic transmission.


78 posted on 11/26/2020 7:03:04 AM PST by khelus
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To: khelus

Oh I agree. I was just pointing out that one thing. When we speak in absolutes it hurts all of our credibilty.

That’s all.


79 posted on 11/27/2020 11:44:54 AM PST by DrewsMum
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