If Abbott really wants to send a message he should start enforcing the mandatory quarantines imposed on positives.
A few huge fines and/or house arrest on violators would send a far stronger message.
We should be quarantining sick people, not healthy ones.
I understand your perspective but let me give a counter point. If you see under 65 and in ok health your chances of this being anything but miserable is pretty high. Remember somewhere approaching 80% are asymptomatic and 98% have mild cases.
Essentially we are saying that we are going to quarantine people for a bad cold or flu. My question is at what point does it stop. Does this mean anyone with corona virus (not covid 19) or influenza gets quarantined? If intellectually honest that means we would quarantine all people with the creeping crud in the winter months. Under penalty of fine or who enforces it?
This is a deliberate blow at freedom. I get it. If you are sick stay home. A decent lesson for all. But enforcement? Health police? Fine people?
This is simply beyond ridiculous. I am not hopeful we will ever regain our sense of safety. We are all to afraid. It’s sad. I am sure in a couple years we will go back to normal but this period will me marked at an irrational response to a mild disease at best. But we gladly sacrificed our freedoms and our liberties for scare tactics that are not even remotely based on science.
And our side is equally as guilty.
Rummy Chick who continues to perpetuate fear
Kozac who daily posts the death count and compares to war
Travis McGee who has never met anything that shouldn’t stomp on Liberty
ExDeMom who assumes an air of authority and stolen valor to pump fear
DannyTn who has occasional flashes of rationality amid all the nonsense
VermontLt whose Personal situation has made him a target for the misinformation
Yes, we have those on our side all of whom are controlled by fear, some of whom attempt to sound educated in the face of multiple rebukes from
Confirmed literature and still peddle fearporn. We can only assume because they love not liberty and are so afraid that they are willing to sacrifice everyone for their personal perspective
It’s really pretty simple. All life comes to a risk benefit analysis. There is not one person forcing anyone who is terrified in public. Each of them has the right to wear a knights helmet with its own air source for all I care if it makes them feel safe. They can wrap their house in plastic and flood it with Uv light and never come out as is their prerogative
The market is providing for touch less delivery and distancing so they don’t have to come out of their home
But why is this not good enough. The real question is why do they need to make sure I live according to their standards. The founding fathers taught is that each of us is responsible for our own liberty. They enshrined the first amendment for this and when that fails enshrined for us amendment two.
Each of us can live freely assessing our own safety without imposing it on someone else. Don’t want to go to a packed night club and dance with sweaty 20 year olds? Then don’t! But don’t say I or someone else can’t. And if the market judges that risk to be too high then the brutal force of the market will force change or extinction. And the problem is solved. Without losing a shred of liberty.
We no longer believe in our way of life. Nor do we believe in our founding. It really is a surrogate for our loss of faith and I am sure God is weeping. He did not create is to be afraid. He made us to love Him and one another. In all of this we are separating from other human beings. In that loneliness and separation we become easy targets for the Promises of man and the devil instead of living for God. And our fall and descent to loneliness, isolation and hell is compete.
We should be quarantining sick people, not healthy ones.
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Why quarantine productive young people who test positive but have no symptoms — not even the symptoms of a common cold? Better to quarantine the people who are at risk, so the productive people can continue to contribute to the cost of caring for the at risk people.