Posted on 05/02/2020 10:31:06 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
...mandatory masks...
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Make it voluntary, thank you.
Common Sense indeed however not all know how to use it see California beach protest.
Better make sure there is enough hydroxychloroquine, actually present in the US, tested for purity, before you start that program...
There are obviously lots of people with a vested interest in hyping this pandemic for all they can.
They are using it to live out their fascist fantasies of heavy handed control of the populace.
They are reaping the political benefits of trashing the economy and damaging a sitting President a few months prior to an election.
They are even seeing means by which some very real profits may be reaped.
Therefore, sadly, your suggestions won't be widely adopted - at least not by anyone with a (D) after their name. We might be able to do our own thing on an individual level. But no democratic leadership nor leftist businesses are going to get behind them.
How about they let them exercise it instead of having it imposed on them - which makes it anything but "self".
Those who think it's too dangerous can hole up for their own safety...and quit bitching about all them folks running loose even though they refuse to run with them...
Maybe someone can start up a tour service and bus FRee folks through neighborhoods and point out all the folks scowling through their windows...
I’m with you. If you’re not coughing and sneezing, the virus isn’t going to jump to someone you’re passing in the store.
If you’re having prolonged contact within 6 feet, okay, wear the mask.
If you’re coughing and sneezing, stay home.
How about we all just go back to being free American citizens?
If voluntary for those who don’t care about others,make the social distance 10 feet.
Keep focusing on yourself dude. I barely know people with that attitude.
If voluntary for those who don’t care about others,make the social distance 10 feet.
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Voluntary means no one _makes_ it anything at all.
You’re afraid? You want Big Brother?
Keep your own effin’ distance, stay in your home, don’t work, imprison your own family and vote for totalitarians.
Your fear does no equal our destruction. Take responsibility for yourself. The best case scenario is we all get it, we all produce antibodies, there is never a 2nd wave and we tell all the communists to GF’d.
Americans are not as Ayn Randy as you seem to be.
IMO:
We could build herd immunity being able to reasonably socialize, distance and wear masks more resposibly than your survival of the fittest approach.
So happy you know all about Americans, Ayn Rand and myself.
I especially appreciate the adverbial form of Rand. She might smile at that herself.
Herd immunity is simply allowing everyone to contract the virus. 97.97% or so will survive. I suppose that makes them fit, but have no idea of how comparative that survival might be. About 80% have light symptoms and a great many, perhaps 20% or so, never know they have it.
It isn’t as though we have no treatments. It isn’t as though this virus isn’t less deadly, let alone severe, then normal flu. It is simply more highly contagious.
Were you suggesting some moral lack in the promotion of survival of the fittest? Sorry. It is simply the way the human species has evolved and developed over millennia. It is what it is.
Do you somehow equate destruction of entire societies, implementation of totalitarian deprivations of natural rights such as movement and association and dress, malnutrition due to government mismanagement and imposition of societal participation by arbitrary decree as kind, compassionate and wise?
That’s historically the position of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Our current globalist betters assure us of their own beneficial intentions. You know, the ones that pave the road to Hell.
Responsibility lies with each of us. Do as you wish. Do not impose your preferences on others and then cloak them in moral snark. Do onto others as you wish them to do onto to you. Mask, self-isolate, bow and scrape in order to garner wider social approval, if you so wish. No one is stopping you. Let others refrain, if they so wish.
Masking and isolation and distancing do not protect anyone. Only contraction of the virus protects everyone. If you doubt this, there are plenty of educated virologists who are now, after the fact of societal destruction in the name of protection, saying exactly that.
Frightened people dislike being seen as weak, so they demand their fears become mandates on everyone.
Americans are generally neither frightened nor weak. That is actually surprising, but the evidence exists in all the protests, the blatant refusals to abide by irrational dictates and something that pleases many of us no end.
YMMV
Not enough time to debunk your mixed bag screed.
Not enough time to debunk your mixed bag screed.
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Right.
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