leper-con wrote:DDB, I don’t want to talk about Trump. He already gets too much air time.
I want to talk about politicising a virus, masks and the best health care practices.
Conspiracy theories and wormholes. I was only pointing out that people seek and see conspiracy where they choose to see it. There are much bigger threats out there, right in front of people but they choose to ignore it because someone told them that wearing a piece of cloth on there face will help them but they find in cumbersome or political. Masks are effective, sanitizing your hands is effective, social distancing is effective. And its temporary until we get the virus under control, its thinned out the heard enough that the rest of us don’t need to worry, God forbid t hits someone we, you or anyone close to us. The problem is the “non believers” are causing the virus to spread, so unless there is a unformed policy, it will be ineffective.
In some ways you are right people aren’t using the right masks, wearing them correctly and touching there faces and contaminating them. But they have proven effective, as has social distancing but this can be solved by a national “mask education” strategy. I could go on but I really hate these type of debates/arguments. I am by nature a live and let live person, but common sense needs to win the day at times. I trust the science which is behind the CDC practices.
We also need to remember that we are also trying to slow the number of infections at one time, as we have limited hospital ICU beds for treatment.
We are both right to a certain extent. I unlike many others am open to good quality dialogue from all sides which is where my opinions ultimately come from. I blend. I am very firm on staying open. Lockdowns to me are completely unnecessary and the issues that result from lockdowns far exceed those of remaining open. So the long and short of everything I say always comes back to two things. Lockdowns and vaccinations. We live in America. Nobody should be able to force us into losing our businesses via lockdowns Has it been taken into account that perhaps people have dumped their entire life into their business and would rather take a chance on 99.9% chance of surviving VS losing their business, house, their sanity, etc?
Same goes for vaccinations. Every family should have the right to participate in vaccines. The hoopla about those who do not take vaccines are putting others at risk is not real. So this vaccine coming up should not be something we are forced to take.
Those are my two big things. And again, if someone wants to wear a mask. Good for you. I don’t care. Just don’t make me wear one. Doesn’t make me less kind despite what the media will tell you. If someone is so afraid of covid they shouldn’t be out.
