Quote Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog View Post
When that person has to work to put food on the table and he gets infected because some Oxford frat douchebags go to a football game and the poor schmuck who is just trying to get a paycheck ends up with it, you?re ok with that?

Look, we are in a fight with this crap virus. It?s a bloody war. I?ve never seen a war won with individuals. We win wars as a united country. At the end of the day, I don?t want to do anything that makes it easier for this disease to spread and potentially kills my friends mother or father or maybe someone?s grandparents.

Putting the football game question aside I do hope we all get on the same page, whatever that page may be that is best to beat this crap. I don?t think everyone doing what is best for them is what is best for our country. Just my thoughts.
The only thing that can "beat" this is a vaccine or herd immunity. Staying inside and quarantining ourselves also may make the disease worse in the long run because it could cause the disease to last longer. There are advantages to exposure. There are disadvantages to quarantining ourselves for a long period of time too.

The bottom line for me is if you feel OK going out and doing things- do it. If you feel guilty about maybe getting someone sick or don't feel safe to go out- then don't.

But it's not anyone else's place to tell someone that they are being "selfish" or put them on a big guilt trip because they want to go out and live their life. It's also not my place to tell someone that doesn't feel safe that they don't have the right to stay inside. So yeah- it goes both ways.

The problem is somehow the focus has shifted from what flattening the curve was supposed to do and was intended to do which was not overwhelm the health care system so that we wouldn't be in a situation where we would have to pick and choose who gets a vent and who doesn't and make decisions like that. I'm in a hot spot and we haven't had to make those decisions. I'm very thankful for that. And here's the reality- yes, as we open things up there will be a spike. And the media will freak out and I probably won't be able to get toilet paper. But because we flattened the curve at least the people that need vents and things like that our healthcare system won't be overwhelmed and we will have actually saved lives because we won't have to make those difficult decisions. And I do envision that it won't be as bad as the first wave simply because more people have antibodies built up.

Somehow it has gotten to be we just need to stay inside until we wake up and this is gone- even if it takes years. And that's not the right way to approach this to beat it. You talk about it being a war- it's pretty rare to win a war by just hunkering down the entire time.