I'm not sure you're getting my point. And your HIV comparison is beyond
awful. Like laughably bad. Just ridiculous. Not to mention you seem to be forgetting about how people with HIV were treated before we understood how it spread. But that's beside the point and we should probably just move on as if you never said it.
Back to the topic... you seem to be jumping between two different arguments here. On one hand you seem to be arguing that people should be able to go out and work. But then you jump to arguing that people should be able to live their lives and go wherever b/c America. Those are two very different arguments currently. That's why I asked the question (that you avoided answering) regarding the huge difference between staying in a bubble and going wherever you want. If you want to argue that we need to be looking at how to get people back to work... that's fine. I agree. If you want to argue that people should just be going anywhere, any time, and doing whatever then I don't agree and believe it's actually counterproductive to the former.
You claim "Nobody is forced to go where other people are just "hanging out" though" but that wasn't what I said. What I said was people are forced to go out to places where they might interact with someone who has been going everywhere and hanging out. I don't control where you've been. In a normal situation that doesn't matter. But in a situation where your recklessness could directly impact my life it matters a great deal. That's the point you don't seem to be getting or if you are not responding to. I have to go to the grocery store to get food. When I go there I have no control over coming into contact with you who has been to the beach, all your friends houses, roaming Wal-Mart or Lowe's every day. But in that situation your recklessness directly impacts me despite me doing everything I can to "mitigate those risks by my own actions".
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Posted: 04/28/2020 at 5:44PM