I’m All For Freedom and Liberty, Except

I do stay home, but what about people who live with others who don’t comply with social distancing, or wearing a mask. They just congregate with others, thereby spreading the pathogen around willy nilly into wider society. The more that virus is in the population, the more dangerous it is for everyone. It’s not as simple as stay home. I may need to go to the hospital for any other number of reasons. I need dental work, but because dentists are high risk for contamination, I need to wait until the virus has diminished somewhat. Those who don’t care about social distance guidelines are putting, not just themselves, but others at greater risk. People are dying from heart attacks because they are trying to hold off going to the hospital. @Laughoften

@Carissimi you can only control yourself, you can't fret over the uncontrollable.

I understand this, but I’m allowed my say, and I’m allowed to worry about dying from a disease that makes you feel like you are drowning, especially when I’m doing my part to prevent that. @Laughoften

@Carissimi your survived the last pandemic from 2009, the Swine flu. You will be all right, just take care of you

This is nothing like the swine flu. I didn’t even know we had a pandemic back then. It wasn’t wide spread. Anyway, the post is about “rights” and civil liberties. One person’s rights only go as far as the rights of another. That’s my point. @Laughoften

My next door neighbor is on a ventilator. It’s very close to home. @Laughoften

@Carissimi excerpt from the CDC website, this virus targeted the young, not the old like Covid 19.
—after the peak of illness during the second wave had come and gone in the United States. From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.

Okay, but I have no memory of world nations closing down, or flights being grounded, or borders closed. Many die of the flu every year, but we don’t close down countries. This is different. It is silent in that it can take 14-days to incubate, before symptoms, and now it seems that many don’t develop symptoms, but are still highly contagious. There is a big difference. However, this is not the point of the post. As I’ve pointed out, it’s about Rights. @Laughoften