waverider wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:55 pm
PeteRasche wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:22 pm
pearlriverwave wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 7:51 pm
so you use 1 example out of thousands and turn our country upside down.
I could tell you about my son's teacher's wife who was a perfectly healthy early 50s woman with no underlying conditions and how his teacher will miss the next two weeks or more of school because tomorrow is the day they have to make the call to remove life support since her lungs are filled with blood clots and there's nothing more they can do. I know, I know, "but the teacher himself and their kids all got it too and they were fine.". Sure, what's one death per every few households? Pick somebody, as long as it ain't you, right?
Sounds like she was mistreated or had issues previously unknown before.
1. Nope. Because this frigging thing is
still a mystery. We haven't solved it. Sick people survive, healthy people die. Roll the dice.
2. Oh, that's great solace. I'll be sure to console my son's teacher with that.
3. F you and your lack of care for any human life besides your own.
waverider wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:55 pm
Or, should I just counter with stories of people I know from age 45 to 104, some with compromised immune systems recovering from cancer that caught it, felt bad for a few days then fully recovered? Numbers don’t lie and the numbers say the chances of fully recovering are much greater than having a severe case.
My point is, and has been since, what, April?, that it's all no big deal to half the country until someone you know dies. Maybe your mom has an unknown condition. Maybe your spouse has an unknown condition. Maybe your kid does. Maybe Willie Fritz does. Maybe one of our star players does. When any one of those people dies will you still be this cold about it? "Well, we didn't know {insert name of starting player} had a problem before, and now he's dead of COVID, but, hey, we got to see some sports so it was worth it! #LivinMyLifeDon'tCareAboutYours"
This is, and has been, my point to the "I'm gonna live my life and not be scared" crowd. I'm not scared, I'm smart. Lots of people - LOTS - are not being smart. Maybe you are, but lots aren't. Those people are the reason this thing is still here.