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originally posted by: Isurrender73
a reply to: RudeMarine
This virus was spread by allowing people from known infected areas to come into their countries without quarantine.
Those who should have been quarantined were not, now everyone needs to be quarantined?
Your parents and grandparents can stay home in isolation. It’s actually a good ideal, but my mother who is at risk will not be listening to that advice as long as she has a choice. A choice she should be free to make.
Eventually us idiots will either gain natural immunity or die. Which is a decision that we are ok with.
No one is forcing anyone to be in contact with anyone else. You can quarantine yourself for as long as you need to.
But we are forcing healthy people who may actually be better off catching the virus and developing natural immunities to avoid contact with other like minded people.
No one is forcing you or the elderly to come in contact with anyone else. Your rights have not been impeded by us idiots.
But my rights to assembly granted to me in the first amendment are being taken from me because of your fears.
originally posted by: rickymouse
But OP, every citizen has their rights, so you have no right to tell other citizens with different views to leave the country. But we can tell non-citizens to leave. Germany has closed it's borders in an open border EU union, yet they try to tell everyone else no.
originally posted by: Isurrender73
a reply to: FingerMan
I know my point about ending the world with a plague was a bit over the top. And I would never force myself into contact with anyone.
But my point remains.
And Based on everything they are saying about this virus, I don’t see how ending any quarantine until a vaccine can be produced can actually stop this virus.
I’m sure our actions will slow down the spread for a short time but once a quarantine is lifted what’s going to stop this virus from coming back and causing the same problems?
In the end it would seem to me that without a vaccine people who will die of this disease will still end up with it and dying within the next 6-12 months. Maybe a vaccine is close to ready and they know something that we don’t? But why not just tell us and end the panic and fully justify these actions.
Their are conflicting reports about this virus and of it goes away in warmer weather or not.
If this was Ebola or something as deadly then I probably would have accepted the governments actions and never posted this thread. But I have still not seen actual statistics that suggest that we should have the reaction we are having.
All I have seen is limited data sets that are being used to spread fear. Without expanded testing I will continue to believe we are being fed a false narrative by the government and MSN.
If I am correct about this false narrative what can prevent the government and MSN from creating boogeymen that we all need to fear whenever they feel a narrative shift is in order.
Protesters all around the world have conveniently been silenced. If a false narrative can shut down anti globalists protests this easily what’s to stop them from doing this again?
originally posted by: Isurrender73
My mother is in the at risk group. She is on SS she can stay home and stay away if she is scared. However my mom is not the type to fear death. She knows I work and may have the virus unknowingly. Just like everyone else. She still chooses to see me and her grandchildren even though the visits may actually kill her. This is the choice she makes. Other elderly may chose to self quarantine until things seem better. I can’t do that.
originally posted by: Isurrender73
This is not a deadly apocalyptic virus that we are talking about. This virus is slightly more deadly to elderly than the common flu.
originally posted by: Isurrender73
Are you going to quarantine yourself every time a new disease is found? How is the economy going to work if every couple of months or even once a year the world shuts down out of fear of dying.
originally posted by: Isurrender73
We live in AMERICA where 30-40 percent of Americans can’t pay their bills, feed their children, afford medical care, if they don’t get paid for 2 weeks. Do you care about them?
Hospitals deal with flu season every year. The only thing that might overrun the hospitals with this disease is fear.
The numbers don’t suggest that this is anything that should garner any bigger response than H1N1 or various other flu like viruses in the past.
I am one those 20-30 million who can’t pay my bills if I miss a paycheck. But that’s ok with you because I have to be afraid of the medias and governments false narrative that is completely illogical based on the actual facts.