I just finished a 14 day travel quarantine. All clear. If I do get sick it will either be from the grocery or from work but I have to do both to live.
The ol "need argument" huh? Where have I heard that before. Not a path I would like to go down. I dont need my AR15, but you know what? That doesnt matter in our society. Just like it doesn't matter that Trump doesnt need his billions..... I refuse to rationalize in that way.
We seem content to mandate people stay isolated, to give up essential liberties like freedom of religion all because a disease which according to texas testing has infected ~10% of those tested and made severely ill 10% of those that are infected. Every inch of liberty we give away is one we will be hard pressed to get back. I am not attending church and am hunkered down in my place like the rest of us, but I do so voluntarily not at the end of government rifle. If you chose to attend church or go to the store that is up to you.
Disease is a cost of human life and society. I dont like it, I would hate for anyone I know to get it, but I can't blame people for continuing to live life.
I’m open to ideas. For example, that idiot who disguised his COVID19 illness to go to delivery ward in the hospital to visit his wife. ..... and let’s say, there you are, at the hospital because you had a mild heart attack, and you are waiting for a cath .... and you catch corona.. How do you feel about that person deliberately breaking the rules and infecting you with COVID19, where you likely to die because you have heart disease. Negligenence? If you die, Negligent Homicide?
Enough of this false equivalence bullshit. That’s like saying Hitler killed 6 million and started a was that killed 20 million more but he was nice to his dog so he the same as everyone else. There is no comparison to the way CV-19 is transmitted, treated on impacting the health care system and the flu. To claim otherwise is either ignorance or denial and propaganda.
I agree with you up to the point where a persons stupid decisions affect the life and liberties of others. If you get behind the wheel drunk, and kill someone, you will be charged. You will be held accountable. It’s one thing when you unknowingly hurt others, it’s quite another when the harm was because of your freedom to make a stupid decision when you knew the alternative.
Except you can’t identify and catch that person like you can others committing negligent homicide. It’s the duty of government to address out of the box situations such as this. Your precious concept of unlimited freedom of the individual is wrong in every measure of the history of this country and is a path to anarchy.
But if you catch it, how reliable will the evidence be in finding that one contaminated person who passed it on to you? Hey, at the start of this, I was firmly in the "overhyped" crowd. But - full disclosure - the stat put out by the state last week really hit me.....95% of the covid deaths in LA are people with an existing condition, and in 41% of those, the condition was diabetes. My wife, 4 of her siblings, her mother and my father check that box, and one of those siblings is a respiratory therapist in the local hospital, so yes, I'm worried.
The atheist is more likely to have been practicing social distancing than the devout believer who thinks his God will stop the virus from getting him. Any church that holds services in these times should have their doors bolted shut wih the congregation inside. Throw in food and water and come back in a few months and let those still alive out.