berchman Loc: South Central PA

How about being forced to take off your shoes before you can get through security at the airport?
How about being forced not to smoke in public places?
How about being forced to stop at a red light?
How about being forced to wear shoes, shirt before you can be served in a store?

lesdmd Loc: Middleton Wi via N.Y.C. & Cleveland

[quote=Hamltnblue]There are victims every day. Most victims other than natural causes are the result of leftist Ideology.
If you drive your car, you are selfish because you put others at risk by moving your 2 ton vehicle at 35 miles an hour. If you pass gas you are selfish because you put others at risk breathing your bacteria. If you talk you are selfish because you can annoy others and raise their blood pressure. If you don't change your mask, you risk a lung infection from bacteria building up and being inhaled. It goes on and on. everything you do is a risk. As suggested, if you don't want risk or don't want to risk hurting others, stay in your basement.

First of all you do not even come close to responding to my point that someone who doesn’t care if he dies and possibly contributes to others dying is a sad and dangerous fool.
Second it is hardly a profound point to say that we all live with and accept risk. The point is, as I expressed to another poster, is that My freedom stops at your nose. I have no god given or constitutional right to put you or anyone else at additional risk because I want to exercise every possible personal freedom.
Your analogy about not being born with face masks is absurd. It makes you sound like a moron. Do you seriously want to reject all the advances made, the longer life expectancy achieved, by ignoring scientific advice? And I never realized that leftist ideology is responsible for more deaths than cancer or heart disease.
No one can retreat to his or her basement. No one should have to.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Wow, you’re the straw man of all straw men.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Clearly you didn’t see this link I posted earlier.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scientists-just-beginning-to-understand-the-many-health-problems-caused-by-covid-19_n_5ef77886c5b6acab28426268

srt101fan

What a mensch....God bless you!

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

Your words will come back to haunt you when you get old, fat and weak. That is, if you live long enough to get old.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

The lack of medical knowledge, selfishness, conspiracy theories and irresponsibility in this thread is one of the saddest and most depressing things I have read in a very long time. I am simply amazed. God help the future of our country if some of the attitudes expressed here are widespread. Perhaps a reread of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire is in order.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

How is life living under bridges and avoiding the Sun's evil rays?
You see- and hear- what you want to. You believe what you were told and cherry picked that.
Almost every doctor in almost every country stated that ages between 10 and 50 are the most vulnerable.
Except for you.
There were studies- over 50, overweight, diabetic- heightened inflammation decreased vulnerability.
Except for you.
"Those getting sick now I saw on the news are still only the fat, diabetic, old" NO ONE ELSE saw this.
Except for you.
"I have many friends who ..."
If you ain't buying, no you don't.
Don't like these visions of ours? Go back home.

LSwartzen

While older people with underlying conditions are more susceptible, the fact is that this latest spike includes many young people who insisted on going to bars. If one of your family members contracts the disease you won't be so cavalier in your dismissive attitude.

WessoJPEG Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio

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Hammer Loc: London UK

I understand your frustration , you are not insulting people, they deserve to be insulted. I am in the UK and we have areas where people are blatantly ignoring the social distancing .There are packed beaches , demonstrations and the specific area in which I live has been packed with people.

In one area, Leicester, they are now having to consider a complete lockdown again as they virus is spreading again !

They will spread the virus and there will be unnecessary deaths . They are committing murder by their selfish behaviour , words fail me . They are disgusting.

DIRTY HARRY Loc: Hartland, Michigan

Chines FLU... Really MR.T.? We're working our way to 130,000 deaths in this country, Europe won't allow us on their Content, and you think it's just a runny nose. How many ways can you sell ignoramus?

DIRTY HARRY Loc: Hartland, Michigan

FAUX NEWS?

DIRTY HARRY Loc: Hartland, Michigan

Oh, that's just some sore mussels... just walk it off.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Dear All: I am a pharmacist by trade and a photographer by hobby. This virus has challenged all of us in health care and we are trying to do our best to do what we were trained to do. That is, we are trying to save people's lives. We are not looking at a person's skin color and saying "you can live and you cannot." We are not trying to decide who's religious beliefs are worth saving. We are too busy saving lives to decide if your choice for the next president is correct or just down-right wrong. Every one's life is important and we are fighting any enemy infection that we have limited tools to fight with. Why do I say that? Many years ago, many strange illnesses plagued our shores. We fought hard and made failures along the way. But, we learned from our failures. We never thought of them as mistakes. I am writing about some infections that most people have heard about but never experienced the climate of the times. There is Tuberculosis, Measles, Malaria, Rabies, AIDS, Zika, SARS, Ebola and now this.
Let us take a young Irish girl who came to this country at the turn of the century with her family during a time when our country had a very anti-Irish sentiment. (It was not uncommon to see signs that read "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY!". But this young girl named Mary was sent off to work to support her family during the turn of the century. She did her best as a cook and was held in high regard because of her skill. Sadly people contracted sickness and the city's Department of Health leaped into action. She was quantified as Patient Zero. She was held in isolation and ordered to be quarantined. She fought the Health Order and won since she did not display any illness at the time. The City granted her appeal under the condition that she not work as a cook and must have her Gall Bladder removed. She had no intention of abiding by the order and went back to work. Many more people got sick and many died. The City department of health finally quarantined her for the remainder of her life on North Brother Island in the South Bronx Bay in New York City. She eventually died from a heart attack after thirty years in isolation. She was nicknamed "Typhoid Mary."
There is an excellent book titled, "How To Survive a Plague," by David France. It tells of the history of the fight we had had against AIDS.

I tell all of you these stories not to impress you. But I wish to convey a simple thought. Unless you are not paying attention, there is a simple thematic thread here to be followed. Everything that we are experiencing now is about RESPECT! We better start paying some of the checks due or we are not going to learn this lesson for a LOOONG TIIIME!

From what I am seeing and my understanding of viruses, this virus has several strains. Each strain varies in the incubation period, the severity of symptoms and eventual outcome and subsequent shedding after infectious state. But we better start respecting each other, not just those in our family and those we know.

Well, I have written all that I wish to without boring many to tears. So, let me jump off my soap box and get back to what it is I do.

Happy Shooting!