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Originally Posted by JustRachel
This is at least reasonable. You made an understandable case. I cannot poke holes in your logic. I can only disagree with how you choose to weigh Covid-related restrictions on freedoms against public health.
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The truth is, I'm not really living some high risk lifestyle, though. I still wear a mask at work and at the store. I still use hand sanitizer after every public interaction. Does the hand sanitizer thing even make a difference? I dunno. But I go with it because it's easy enough. I wash my hands 3x as much as I did before Covid. I skipped a friend's wedding in August because of Covid. I haven't been around more than ten people indoors without a mask since March. I'll see people or have them over, but haven't been part of any large indoor group activities. What I don't do is wear a mask when I walk out the door or when I go for a run or when I'm walking the dog, and I don't wear a mask when people come over or when I go to someone else's house. Public indoors = mask. Outdoors / private indoors = no mask.
A lot of it comes down to calculated risk. Once the protest thing started getting hyped by the Democrats, it was clear (to me, at least) that there was always going to be a reset button on Covid before it went away. I don't know any of this herd immunity stuff or whether or not masks work or any of that. I really don't care. What I do know is that there will always be 10k+ people willing to gather for any reason they deem appropriate, and every single time it happens, Covid resets. Lakers fans just had a giant celebration outside of Staples Center after the Lakers won the NBA Finals... in the most democratic state in the country, when apparently the democrats are the "Covid is super serious" party. So I can either lock myself in my basement for five years, because now apparently even a vaccine won't cut it for a lot of folks, or I can go about my business and live my life with reasonable precautions. I still don't plan on traveling or taking any sort of public transportation for a while.
I also don't apply my beliefs to others. If you want to put on a hazmat suit before you leave your crib, cool. If you want to lick the toilet seat on the airplane, cool. You do you. I've set my cutoff point for what I feel is appropriate in regard to risk/freedom balance, as we all have. It wouldn't be right of me to expect others to agree with all of the specific rules I have for myself, and I don't think it's right of anyone else to do so either. The fact that Covid resets every time there's a mass gathering takes away a lot of the importance of following any sort of guidelines, in my opinion.