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How is this to be accomplished? Lock up everyone who has a comorbidity or is over a certain age? The only ways I can think of to "protect" those who are most vulnerable involve way more loss of freedoms than being required to wear a mask when shopping or having to order take out instead of eating at a restaurant. Do you think locking a diabetic person in a "safe space" for life is really a solution?

*shrug* as an over 65, obese, diabetic, hypertensive, cancer survivor, yes I think that is a better solution than locking everybody up.

If I was allergic to peanuts, I wouldn't demand every peanut farmer plow his crops under, I wouldn't demand no child could ever have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I wouldn't demand that no ice cream sundae ever have crushed nuts.

My comorbidities, my problem, and my responsibility to minimize my own risks.

At the nully hacienda we've been hunkered down since 2/3, not just for me, but for my nonagenarian mom as well.

A school child, a twenty something store clerk and a 50 something middle manager have zero to minimal risk. Why are they locked up?

Power and the abuse of power, pure and simple. Our "betters" live for that as surely as a junkie lives for his or her next fix.

[exDemMom]

I think this is somewhat along the lines of that old story where the mice get the idea to bell the cat. Great idea, but how to accomplish it? (Not that I think it’s a great idea to confine everyone who is at highest risk of severe disease.)

In very practical terms, how many people in the US have comorbidities? Obesity, diabetes, asthma, heart disease, etc. Plus, people over age 60. I’m thinking that we’ve already identified a significant chunk of the population who need to be locked up so that millennials (the healthy ones, anyway) can go around their lives as usual. More than half, maybe. Plus, the risk of death increases with age, but is not absent at younger ages. And then, how do you enforce a discriminatory quarantine policy? Test everyone every day, isolate people for 2 weeks before allowing them into the “safe” camp?

And so on. I just don’t think there is a workable way to do it.

[metmom]

If I was allergic to peanuts, I wouldn't demand every peanut farmer plow his crops under, I wouldn't demand no child could ever have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I wouldn't demand that no ice cream sundae ever have crushed nuts.

Not the same thing at all, nully.

Come on. You can choose to avoid peanuts.

You cannot choose to avoid someone who is contagious when nobody knows about it.

There's such a thing as simple courtesy, and at this point, wearing a mask to prevent people from spreading it is NOT that big of an imposition. And I don't see that exdemmom is advocating for anything more than that.

At some point we are our brother's keeper.