My sister who has stayed in her home since mid-March hasn’t practiced much freedom. She won’t go out the front of the house, because then she’ll run into her neighbors, who don’t wear masks outdoors, and practice some social distancing, but not everyone does. She’s so afraid. She says she can only handle being in the back yard for 5 minutes because of the heat and the mosquitoes.
So she stays inside her 1500 square foot house. She doesn’t get to see her 1 year old grandson, her only grandchild. She misses him so much. She’s 67 and in reasonable health, slightly overweight, but not terribly. She has a slight heart condition that she has managed with medication when it’s necessary. For the most part, she has always been afflicted by depression and obsessive-compulsive behavior. She had been doing GREAT with her medications for that before this overreaction, She gets mad, actually jealous more than mad, when she finds out others are going about their lives.
To your point, she isn’t free at all. I can’t get anywhere with her. She is being irrational and there is nothing I can do about it. She thinks a vaccine will cure all of this. So she stays inside, and orders groceries online. She complains when they have to make substitutions, or pick produce that wasn’t very good. This is not FREEDOM. I blame the Democrats and their propaganda arm, the MSM, for blowing this out of proportion. My sister isn’t dead yet, but she’s certainly not living,
That’s so sad about your sister. Having OCD makes her even more vulnerable to irrational fear of WuFlu. (I have a friend who’s experiencing this, too.) They believe the government’s numbers.
She is protecting herself as a vulnerable population member. She apparently thinks not getting the virus is more important than having the freedom to roam around town exposing herself to a disease that in her case would likely kill her if she caught it.
I am hard pressed to say her actions are irrational.
Nobody likes being cooped up. The problem is vulnerable populations don’t get a second chance at survival. Are you going to be the one to tell these people just take a chance?