The bottom line is that most socially aware people are doing the best they can. It’s actually impressive imo that this level of shutdown was able to be achieved worldwide.
Save your outrage for protesters in the streets, people going to the beach in Florida, Trumps daily briefings, and Brian Kemp. There is plenty of actual shit to get pissed off about. Getting mad at a frontline worker for getting Starbucks is like yelling at a poor person for using a plastic straw.
Eh. The level of shutdown here in Texas is not impressive.
Yeah, that was a tricky switch I missed from the beginning of the shutdown when wanted to support the restaurants so that their workers could continue getting a paycheck if they wanted. Once unemployment + $600 came along, we want to force restaurants to shutdown so their workers can get that.
I mean the practical impact of me not buying is the restaurants staying open with marginally less revenue and tips but whatever. I’m actually happy with my $2 spaghetti meal, lol.
Do we really need a purity test for social distancing? Not everyone has the luxury to participate to the same degree. Such a test is also sure to harm the most vulnerable and poor.
Someone who works 12 hours a day in a hospital should be able to get a coffee in an extremely low risk environment without fear of shaming from a bunch of people with the privilege to live much easier and safer lives.
And this is why it drives those of us doing the full quarantine thing mad when people are justifying their trips out. Like, hey, we could all lock the fuck down like adults and get this thing over with sooner, but fuck it, let’s drag this out for the full 18 months because people need their McDonalds, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Applebees, etc…
When I lock down, I’m only as safe as the weakest link that I allow into my apartment. As a society, we’re only doing as well as the majority of people dictate with their actions.
The price of a cup of coffee or a meal delivered that didn’t have to be isn’t money, it’s extending this whole thing and making it 1/1000000000th of 1% worse. But of course when you’ve got 200 million people making the same decisions two or three times a week, that shit adds up. It’s easy to say your 1/10000000000000000000000000000000th of 1% doesn’t matter… but then when everyone starts doing it, it does.
Let’s no go overboard she works 4 8 hour shifts a week at an end stage memory care facility.
An insane number of you still have hope this is going to be some version of OK. I think that’s the weirdest thing ITT.
I’m sorry but there’s no chance lol. None at all.
Like I’d love a real lockdown to participate in… but that’s not even on offer.
Given the world as it is I see it as the opposite, getting this over with 1/10000000000000th of 1% faster.
If you have really been shamed into not using instacart by members of this forum then this forum has contributed to making the situation just a little more dangerous, and the world just a little more of a worse place. As many people as possible should use instacart, and instacart should continue expanding capacity. The use of instacart is a net positive in combating this disease for EVERYONE including the grocery store workers and instacart workers. For a forum full of former poker players who are supposedly good at math, it continues to amaze me that several people do not grasp this. Let me try again, slowly:
Let’s take a hypothetical supermarket where two instacart shoppers spend 10 hours a day shopping for 1 person per hour, and then 100 people spend 1 hour each day shopping for themselves. This situation would be FAR improved, if instead of that, there were 12 instacart workers, shopping for 10 hours a day for 120 people. That situation would be safer for the instacart workers, safer for the grocery store workers, and safer for the customers. If you can afford to use instacart you should absolutely be using it. If you can’t afford to be using it the government should be allowing EBT benefits to pay for it. The more people use instacart and the more instacart scales up and expands, the better it is for everyone. But now, you’ve stopped using instacart, because you’ve been shamed into it by the same hysterical illogical people who want to feel better about themselves because by god they’re not going to saddle somebody with doing their grocery shopping for them during a pandemic, so they’re absolutely going to go to a grocery store and expose themselves and a bunch of other people because reasons.
they’re…lovin’ it?
It’s only how this thread got started.
TLDR.
I’m simply not going to participate in devising some purity test. If people are making an honest effort to socially distance, and not being openly reckless, I’m not going to parse if they are evil for ordering out once or going to the grocery store twice in a week instead of once.
Especially not while enjoying the privilege of getting paid to work at home, having a supportive family to be quarantined with, and not having to worry about making my house payment.
The 7 fuck you posts in a row beg to differ.
I’m sorry but a lot of the people ITT are wildly delusional about what’s actually happening out in the real world and have convinced yourselves that what we do in the micro sense has an impact in the macro sense. Each and every one of us can only control our own chances of infection and who we have a chance of infecting. Personally I’m trying to keep the chances that I infect someone who wouldn’t otherwise be infected to an absolute minimum because that’s literally the only thing I can control.
Literally the only reason I’m not calling a bunch of you out harder is that if what you need to do the right thing (which to be clear is to avoid getting infected yourselves no matter what) is to judge me harshly… that’s fine.
A lot of you seem to think that somehow this thing is going to be shortened by being handled correctly though. I’m here to tell you there’s zero chance of that. You guys should be 100% prepared for the possibility that you’re going to be in quarantine from now until late 2021. That’s just how this is going to go IRL. Build a routine that gets you there in a way you can actually execute.
And I’m not taking responsibility for that. If you want to blame someone for that blame the government for not doing their job and actually enforcing a proper fucking lockdown. I’m pretty goddamn displeased that my chances of fading this are zero % truth be told. I’m mad on behalf of the Starbucks employees too. It’s why I’m tipping them pretty hard come to think of it.
Do you really think you can accurately make this judgement?
I agree with the rest of the post though. Unless some miracle happens, we’re stuck in this situation for over a year and it drives me nuts that no one irl seems to acknowledge this
Fully expect that, my friends think I’m nuts.
You are going to keep this up until late 2021? Do you think you would do so if you didn’t perceive yourself to be high risk?
Possibly. Depends on the evidence of long term damage in minor cases. If 1.5 to 2 years inside is the price to keep fully functional lungs and testicles, then so be it.
Girl I’m dating’s cousin just proclaimed herself a Trump → Biden voter.
“I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I think I’m voting for Biden.”
This in response to injecting Lysol into our veins.