03-10-2022, 02:55 AM
numbered wrote:
The comments from the crazy were AMAZING. Only it was not the MAGA crazy. It was the absolutist, everyone-should-be-locked-down-until-there-are-no-cases crowd. Just astonishing to me how nasty and aggressive these people are. Their core argument is that many folks are compromised in some way so we should all happily lock down to protect them. For as long as it takes. Their lack of thinking clearly about how the world works--even just getting food into stores--is troubling. But their ability to be nasty is very robust.
I considered myself on that "side" of things. I am surprised at how willing we are to accept 2k deaths a day. My lovely wife and I have yet to go anywhere or eat out. Masks everywhere. I get the sense that MRF is closer to this than MAGAworld.
But this was so extreme that I was stunned.
You could not pay me enough to be a local public official right now.
Those people you mention have been emboldened by this and given credence by the epidemiologists who were essentially making public policy for a time. Those people also don't like the world and are happy to live alone and get everything delivered to their doorstep, and they cannot understand why "everyone" doesn't still do this. You know how the Rs would make fun of the left that they're out of touch and elitist? These people give truth to that stereotype.
My advice is to go and eat at a restaurant, they could use the support. You don't need to stand like a sardine at a bar, just sit at a table just the twoof you.