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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Bucklion said:
What is it they say, that a society will be judged by how they treat their vulnerable? I guess “fuck ‘em, they have it coming” is the new chic.
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According to the UN, 130 million are going to starve to death without jobs. Most are young families. How are we treating them? This is not the black and white issue that you continue to make it.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Who said anything about expendable?
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We're going to find out how expendable they are, because we are opening in many places before it's flattened. Without any substantial PPE fixes for healthcare workers let alone the country.
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How would you have been judged regarding how you treated the vulnerable prior to COVID19?
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We were all pretty clueless about this threat two months ago and are still mostly in the dark.

Meanwhile huge portions of this country are still treating this as something that only threatens the feeble, and the rest of us need to consider how much we threaten them by our choices to go out or return to work to rescue a freefalling economy. When in reality the threat is there for most of us to get very sick.
 
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I'd be a little more open to easing restrictions were we not literally the stupidest nation on the planet. Within 3 hours of restaurants opening in Oklahoma there were numerous cases of 'Muricans demanding to be served and becoming abusive and threatening towards staff members who denied service due to a lack of a mask.....inevitably including one guy pulling out his piece and threatening to shoot the restaurant manager.
 
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And lemme lob one in for those on front line of Covid + patients... they are agonizing and frightened every minute... it's 24X7... not just when they're on duty...
The guts it takes to go to work.. to repeat @jwinslow "We were all pretty clueless about this threat two months ago and are still mostly in the dark." is alarmingly true.
 
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jwinslow said:
We're going to find out how expendable they are, because we are opening in many places before it's flattened. Without any substantial PPE fixes for healthcare workers let alone the country.

We were all pretty clueless about this threat two months ago and are still mostly in the dark.

Meanwhile huge portions of this country are still treating this as something that only threatens the feeble, and the rest of us need to consider how much we threaten them by our choices to go out or return to work. When in reality the threat is there for most of us.
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The question of how you’d be judged regarding the vulnerable prior to COVID19 wasn’t directed at you, but since you answered...

Again, the Body Kount Klub is only cares to focus on one side of the story. There are plenty of “feeble” who are negatively being impacted by this thing who will _never_ contract the virus. If we’re going to throw around statements regarding our (my word) compassion for the feeble due to the virus, ya God damn better well have been throwing in to help the feeble before this... and if not, certainly after.

It’s maddening that so many — ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DISCUSSION — chose to not acknowledge the other side. I’m pointing my fingers at both sides. Solving for one issue at the expense of those who are impacted by the other is at best selfish and at worst has the potential to be of greater overall harm to all of us.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'd be a little more open to easing restrictions were we not literally the stupidest nation on the planet. Within 3 hours of restaurants opening in Oklahoma there were numerous cases of 'Muricans demanding to be served and becoming abusive and threatening towards staff members who denied service due to a lack of a mask.....inevitably including one guy pulling out his piece and threatening to shoot the restaurant manager.
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How are they behaving in your hometown?
 
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heisman said:
How are they behaving in your hometown?
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Almost everyone that I've seen has been wearing a mask, but covidiots are here too. I mentioned the old guy at the wine store in Highland Park who tried to force contact with the employee (store only does stay in your car curbside pickup) and when the employee put his case on the ground and went back inside yelled "THIS IS FUCKING NUTS!" Guy was probably in his late 60s, so one has to wonder whether he's been McDaniel'd.

Illinois isn't without its share of dimwits.

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jwinslow said:
We're going to find out how expendable they are, because we are opening in many places before it's flattened. Without any substantial PPE fixes for healthcare workers let alone the country.

We were all pretty clueless about this threat two months ago and are still mostly in the dark.

Meanwhile huge portions of this country are still treating this as something that only threatens the feeble, and the rest of us need to consider how much we threaten them by our choices to go out or return to work to rescue a freefalling economy. When in reality the threat is there for most of us to get very sick.
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1.25 million people die in car wrecks every year. Maybe we should ban all automobiles.
 
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