No. I’m saying I’m not going to slam someone else for taking the govt at their word that something is safe, and not answering some higher moral calling based on their own epidemiological and virological analysis of the situation.
Wait is this not Monday?
We live in california, whose govt is pretty much kicking all sorts of ass at this. It’s a natural and rational way to think from that perspective.
Thread title is terrible. Should be: “High risk people should quarantine less than low risk people. Change my mind.”
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I’m interested in arguments from people who believe both of the following:
- Nurses should be banned from Starbucks
- Starbucks should be open at all, period
who is saying that
None for my family for at least 4 weeks, I think 5 weeks. But I think it’s ok if managed properly.
Sometimes I come into the forum and I’m like “Where is everyone?!” And then I find the thread and I’m like “Aha!”.
And then, “oh.”
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I’m arguing that we should focus on restricting the situations that are likely to significantly contribute to the spread of the virus and relax restrictions on situations and activities that aren’t likely to contribute to the spread of the virus.
Yup here and the KJU thread today when I arrived…
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All closed in UK, Italy, France… SK…etc. so no temptation to spread da covid
I don’t know. If the anti-nurses at starbucks crowd is also anti everybody else at starbucks, then I understand and agree with their viewpoint.
However, people seem particularly hung up on the nurses enjoying this frivolous indulgence, but not others.
That is a fair point, I will reconsider some behavior because of this.
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The point has been lost a little in that BS was stating no point self-isolating as wife works with old people in assisted living so the’re both ‘fuck it, we’re getting it anyway’ so grabbing free coffees and not really isolating as ‘no point, gonna get it’… but ‘there’s no covid in the home yet’…kinda forgetting that the olds will get killed in process if either BS or his wife contract Covid and pass it on.
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I mean personally speaking I don’t think anyone should go and I think the government should be paying the baristas to stay home.
Given that they are still open, I think it is extraordinarily irresponsible for healthcare workers to go.
Like, you guys wouldn’t be freaked out if you had a grandma in a nursing home and you knew that her caregivers were regularly getting takeout food and Starbucks? If you were a nurse you wouldn’t have an insane level of guilt about unnecessarily exposing yourself and, in turn, your patients?
For the record, if Starbucks wants to give free coffee to healthcare employees I’m all in! Drop off a big batch of coffee in the hospital parking lot in the morning, or send some boxes with pounds of beans, or donate some coffee machines and beans to the hospital cafeteria.
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so the original point was husbands of assisted care workers grabbing starbucks, not nurses? fun
It was both. But in any case, there’s no functional difference between the two.
it’s just whether you should work with old folk and still run around town for your coffee
and if your married to someone who works with old folk and thinks ‘fuck it, i’m getting it anyway so show me the way to McD’s’
Most of EU has banned family visits to assited living places for this very reason, not sure with US.
well i think there should be a tiny difference to the pearl-clutchers who think you should let them live their life, i agree drive through coffee shouldn’t really be around right now
that seems like a terrible idea to me
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