I will continue to self isolate. This crap is going to break out again if they stop the lock down as it has done in other countries.
People are being selfish to want out and it will take a toll.
Part of the difference though, is I am 70 and live on a few acres. I understand people going stir crazy cooped up in an apartment or condo.
People are being selfish to want out and it will take a toll.
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You seem to emphasize the ‘cabin fever’ aspect this but many people are feeling significant financial stress and esperately want to get back out to work. Also, isolation itself is unhealthy and harmful in many ways.
See post 6.
And yet somehow, in your fear-dominated brain, it is NOT selfish of you to want to keep everyone else under house arrest to assuage your irrational fears.
Most of us have had enough of living like cowering little girls. Go back to hiding under your bed.
Yeah, just like all those selfish people a generation ago that wanted to secure freedom against fascism and went to war for it. I mean, look how many wound up dead from that selfish pursuit, right?
And that is your right to continue to isolate. I support it fully.
It is my right, however, to realize that when we went into lockdown we knew little about this virus. We now know more and we know who it affects.
We are finding out more and it appears that this was here form much longer than we were lead to believe. As testing increases the statistics are showing which patient groups are more vulnerable. We are also seeing that the death rate drop significantly.
We are finding out which treatments are most effective and which drugs show promise.
We have learned that the great ventilator shortage crisis was non-existent. We are also learning the ventilators night not be the best course of action.
We are finding out that the original reason for the lockdowns, namely, flattening the curve, has been achieved. That reason was to avoid flooding the hospitals. We know that hospitalization rates were much lower than expected.
We know that locking down and a total shutdown of our economy is replacing one risk of mass death with another. It is robbing Peter to pay Paul.
We also know that absolute power corrupts absolutely and that certain governors are being arbitrary and capricious in their restrictions.
We also know that the Constitution is being shredded.
We also know that this virus is being used to push a far left agenda and is being used to try to enshrine voter fraud.
Using lockdown to stop the virus was never the goal. Ensuring that there were NO deaths was never the goal. Instead it is the more goal as the posts were moved. It is impossible to achieve but those who want to use this virus to forward an agenda know that.
What pandemic or disease has ever been reduced to zero without a vaccine. Yet, we did not shut down the entire country for H1N1 until a
vaccine could be found.
Mitigation is what we were preached. Mitigation does not mean elimination.
I keep hearing that this is unprecedented and justifies suspension of the Constitution. Yet at the time our founding fathers were drafting the Constitution they were facing regular and mass outbreaks of small pox, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, lyme’s disease, dysentery, rickets, malaria and a whole host of other diseases.
By all means continue to self isolate if you think that is the best course. The rest of the economy needs to get back to work or the damage will be irreparable
“I will continue to self isolate. This crap is going to break out again if they stop the lock down as it has done in other countries.
People are being selfish to want out and it will take a toll.
Part of the difference though, is I am 70 and live on a few acres. I understand people going stir crazy cooped up in an apartment or condo.”
Different strokes for different folks. I’m 72...my self isolation days are over. I’m not going to spend what time I have left in fear. Good luck to you.
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People are going to lose their houses over this among other financial disasters. There is no selfishness at all about it.
Or the difference is you’re 70 and some of us are younger with families to support, and careers and Whatnot. Not from being cooped up.