You’re accepting that 0.2-1% chance you spend 10 days on a ventilator and 10-50% chance of real permanent lung damage with a lot more grace than I would.
This whole thing is just so shitty and disgraceful. How the hell do we have a PPE shortage in this country? It’s the wealthiest country in the world with the most ingenuity, it should be easy.
Do wish we had some official guidance on the relative risks of takeout food or running to the local beer store. Is it worth it to help local businesses keep the lights on? I have no idea, really.
Lol any grace should be ascribed to my wife. As mentioned earlier I made a real effort at fleeing. And now I’ve opted to descending into fatalism as preferable to divorce lol.
The fuck is wrong with you? Is this what embracing “fatalism” looks like?
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Ok, John Mayer.
The last group I will be judgmental about, and the one that deserves the most leeway and benefit of the doubt is anyone working in a fucking hospital or nursing home right now. The sacrifice of staying home all day doesn’t compare at all.
They also have to act the most responsibly.
You sociopathic monster, you’ve killed us all.
It’s great that you know some amazing people and sucks that not every frontline worker is as perfectly amazing as they are. The latter are still fucking heroes though, sacrificing risking and working harder than probably anyone in this thread is, and we should act like it, not throw shade.
Working 10+ hours daily in a chamber of sickness and death isn’t enough of a sacrifice for Johnny. He will go apeshit and yell at them if they also don’t adhere to indefinite solitary confinement and his guidelines for acceptably risky behavior.
I guarantee that if you saw it be normal day in Texas right now you’d be in full waaf mode right with me. Almost no one is doing anything to contain this thing. Hate to be the bearer of bad news.
The thing about a tragedy of the commons is that once it’s completely trashed the one dude on a quixotic quest to clean it up is a fool not a hero.
Bottom line is that those old people are already effectively exposed. So is everyone I mentioned. Nothing anyone itt can do about it.
Like I said we are only taking the precautions we are currently taking for purely selfish mental health reasons… Make no mistake it’s already over.
My point is literally that internet keyboard warriors like myself and most people here shouldn’t be criticizing frontline workers, and you think I’m doing it… because I want Starbucks? Or I want to go to the mall and get a haircut? Flesh out your argument please. I make my own damn coffee. Cool story that you are able to differentiate between Boredsocial’s wife and a hospital nurse, and whether they actually need that Vanilla Latte to keep from breaking down and losing their damn minds. It’s not about them apparently, it’s about me, the selfish asshole. Because someone who is risking their life went to go get a cup of coffee and the least I could do is defend them from charges of bringing on the apocalypse?
Yeah I don’t know dude. We definitely could skip Starbucks. The question is whether it would make the slightest difference for us or anyone one degree of separation from us.
In your case you can actually not get infected. It’s totally different. I don’t think you should change anything tbh and I appreciate what you’re doing.
Low risk people’s part in this is to not get infected and not drain the systems resources. If you actively avoid infection you do in fact improve things.
I unfortunately am not going to fade this, and neither is anyone else in our spot.
I’m doing my part largely by making sure I don’t make contact with anyone who isn’t also at high risk.
Lol, I don’t drink coffee and haven’t been to any physical location besides my workplace and my house since March 13th. Nice try though.
He’s cowering at home because the Starbucks workers are super risky contacts. He’s probably right.
I mean, holy shit, even from a purely logical perspective, as has been pointed out before, food delivery is a lower risk option for EVERYONE involved in the aggregate then getting your food in person by physically shopping for all the ingredients in a crowded supermarket. But you continue to go round and round on this stupid point.
That’s the plan… Or at least for a big chunk of it to significantly reduce my risk and increase the chances of finding a better treatment before I get it.
Good we need as many people to take this option as possible.
Especially restaurant delivery! They drop it off on you fucking porch and walk away. There is no human contact, you pay and tip on your credit card in advance. Theyr’e working in a restaurant that is not open to the public. How is that worse than everyone going to a crowded supermarket, exposing themselves and all the supermarket workers, to buy all the ingredients to cook everything.
JT is mad because it supports the restaurant being open I suspect. He’s not entirely wrong either.