Covid-19

[Strange Brew]

Meanwhile, Kentucky is about to hit a record number of hospitalizations than at any time during the pandemic, over 90% of them unvaccinated. 17 children currently.

Indiana. Indiana…Let it go…

[Xville]

Indiana. Indiana…Let it go…

Would you be saying that if it was you who knew one of those kids that was having trouble breathing on his own?

Meanwhile beds are filling up in multiple parts of the country and thus, back to operations being postponed, diagnosis’ being delayed etc.

At some point, yeah we will be at a point where we “can live with this” because of immunity with vaccines etc and our body developing enough defenses but we aren’t there yet.

[Strange Brew]

Would you be saying that if it was you who knew one of those kids that was having trouble breathing on his own?

I’d be at the hospital not crusading on a message board.

[Xville]

I’d be at the hospital not crusading on a message board.

I’m not one of those people, my point is have some freaking compassion for your fellow man.

If you want to stick your head in the sand, do you.

[Strange Brew]

I’m not one of those people, my point is have some freaking compassion for your fellow man.

If you want to stick your head in the sand, do you.

No, it’s here. It sucks. There’s a vaccine you can get if you need/want it. I care care more about where it came from, how and why at this point.

Edit: it’s dangerous to conflate authoritarian tendencies with compassion.

[boozehound]

I’m not one of those people, my point is have some freaking compassion for your fellow man.

If you want to stick your head in the sand, do you.

A-freaking-men.

You know how can't get the vaccine? Kids under 12. Like my 3 kids under 12. Sometimes people's choices effect other people.

[Strange Brew]

A-freaking-men.

You know how can't get the vaccine? Kids under 12. Like my 3 kids under 12. Sometimes people's choices effect other people.

Hmmm, what do other people’s choices have to do with your kids under 12?

[XU_Lou]

I’m not one of those people, my point is have some freaking compassion for your fellow man.

If you want to stick your head in the sand, do you.

Pretty interesting comment.... coming from the guy who literally just today advocated for the indiscriminate nuclear bombing of an entire region in another thread:

Great in theory…. I think we should have just turned the damn place into a parking lot..like I think most of the Middle East should be.

[boozehound]

Hmmm, what do other people’s choices have to do with your kids under 12?

When people's choices endanger other people, I think that they cease to just become 'their choices'. For the same reason that I can't walk downtown and start shooting a gun in the air - my choice has a significant potential to injure others who are merely going about their lives and not specifically opting in to the risky scenario I've created with my poorly informed 'choice'.

[Strange Brew]

When people's choices endanger other people, I think that they cease to just become 'their choices'. For the same reason that I can't walk downtown and start shooting a gun in the air - my choice has a significant potential to injure others who are merely going about their lives and not specifically opting in to the risky scenario I've created with my poorly informed 'choice'.

Sure, but what does that have to do with this conversation?