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Why is everyone so happy being locked up? [I Seek Freedom]

Everyones worried about a virus that's had 9 months to kill us all and hasn't managed to kill even a fraction of 1% of us. Now you're worried about the return of the mutant ronas that will definitely kill all humanity this time.

You're fine not seeing your family and friends. You're fine waiting outside stores in pointless distanced lines. You're fine wrapping a muzzle round your face. You're all fine with the idea of receiving a coerced, rushed vaccine for a cold virus. You're fine never doing anything anymore.

Isn't anyone in the least bit skeptical? Wasn't it just "3 weeks to flatten the curve" in March? It's 1 day before NYE now.
snowbelt · 61-69, M
What is wrong with you? We're in the middle of a global pandemic that has already killed more than one American in a thousand, and is killing at record rates. You do what you need to do to prevent the spread of the virus, assuming you care about other people. Eventually it will be over and we can resume something approximating a normal life again. Unfortunately there are many people like you who do not have the intestinal fortitude to suck it up and do the right things.
SpaceCreature · 26-30, F
@snowbelt ☝🏼
Stjerne11 · 26-30, F
Maybe you’re not doing it properly. In my country we are careful and it’s working.
What makes you think everyone is happy about it? I miss my parents to the point of tears but they are older and immune compromised. We see each other from a distance or FaceTime but it kills me not to hug them. I don’t consider it a lock down...I’m cautious so as not to possibly harm someone whose health cannot handle a virus. Just like I would for a cold or flu.
Nomoretomorrow · 46-50, M
@snowbelt thank you. I hope I can.
@Nomoretomorrow My prayers are with you and your parents for a reunion soon.

My dad is 83 and has emphysema. My mother is 74 and has Type 1 diabetes. It just isn’t worth the risk to spend much physical time with them. We did gather for Christmas but chose a sunny day, distanced around a bonfire. But no hugs ☹️
Nomoretomorrow · 46-50, M
@Pinkstarburst Greatly appreciated. My deepest and sincerest wishes are with you and your family too. Hopefully we'll all come through this to the other side of this and see our loved ones again in happier times.
no1 is happy about this, it's about personal responsibility & accountability. no mask, no quarantine, no control of the virus.
@lovelywarpedlemon oh dear, this is pathetic. Me, my family, my kids are ALL going to die. It's life, everyone dies when their days are up. Will you waste them hiding from real responsibility?
snowbelt · 61-69, M
Nomoretomorrow · 46-50, M
@similarexperience Rubbish. I work in a dementia unit and have seen it sweep through there taking many of our lovely residents with it and making many of the staff dangerously ill. Stop trying to be edgy and grow up.
Not only skeptical ... I completely disregard the hysterical ... crys of "wear a mask!!!!!!"
StevetheSleeve · 31-35, M
@similarexperience People who take common sense precautions are also thinking for themselves or they’d be like you.
@StevetheSleeve Don't you worry yourself about my posts. They aren't meant for you.
StevetheSleeve · 31-35, M
@similarexperience Everything is meant for me.
Nomoretomorrow · 46-50, M
It hasn't killed many people *because * we used social distancing, lockdown, masks, etc. Without these the death rate would have been much higher. I'm as sick of it all as the next person, especially as I'd planned to do so much this year that has had to go by the wayside and that has got to me but it is what it is. As for scepticism one of my jobs is a care worker in a home and I've seen a number of residents die from covid and many of my colleagues badly stricken, some quite dangerously. I sympathise with you I truly do but, despite vaccines being rolled out, we're still in the thick of it especially with these more contagious versions. Just hang on in there, the jabs might not bring about an immediate end to all this but they are a step in the right direction and will mark the beginning of the return to some sort of normality.
it's too easy to say that lockdowns are the reason deaths are not especially high - partly because we don't know what would have happened if there had been no lockdown. I presume nothing would have happened.

You know...just cause the rooster crows first doesn't mean it caused the sun to rise!

You could also say that if lockdowns worked so well at controlling the rate of death then why have we needed subsequent lockdowns? it implies the 1st lockdown failed.why repeat again what was shown to not work?
@snowbelt thanks for spotting that. I'll change it now.
Nomoretomorrow · 46-50, M
@similarexperience not so. Initially Boris wanted to "take (coronavirus pandemic) on the chin" until the death rate of doing so was calculated. Lockdowns work while they are in place. When they are lifted the disease rises again, also countries that locked down early, strictly and for a long enough time, eg New Zealand have lower death rates and infection rates. Asian countries that routinely wear masks also have lower infection rates. Its common sense, anything that puts a barrier between people, ie masks, social distancing, lockdowns will slow the infection rate and save lives. It won't get rid of the disease, but will slow it saving lives.
SW-User
I am not an anti-vax , anti-mask , anti-social distancing , but the sad reality is that we’ll have to learn how to live with COVID-19 and its new strains. We’re still in the process of accepting it. It’s a historic period what we’re living that will be studied many years ahead.
Bloodstream11 · 26-30, M
I been saying the same
[b]Nobody[/b] is freaking [b]happy[/b] about ANY of this !
I’m just going to assume that you don’t know anyone who’s either been deathly ill or actually passed away from this.
Or you’re just an ignorant, selfish jerk. Either way, I’m blocking you.
@bijouxbroussard Thank you!
revenant · F
I am not. It is a travesty t. I would rather get covid than carry on this life in solitary confinement. It is pure torture for me. It is medieval and it is inhumane treatment of healthy human beings.
I am healthy so why should I be treated like a sick animal ?
It is not ebola
Politicians change their minds on short notice with no consideration whatsoever what it does to human beings and families.
I am not a happy camper
@revenant are there any around you, any groups of people who are up for being social? I've been looking for humans here, it is proving hard, but I know there are some....if I find anything I'll let you know.
SW-User
The curve was flat. Then there was fatigue. Schools and colleges started having classes again. Then the holidays.

I just wrote on another thread that I made it to November only knowing two people that got sick.

Since the start of December I hear at least one person of a family/friend who was or is hospitalized.

I heard about another guy last night who is intubated.
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
Lockdown's don't seem to be helping the west coast.
Bludgers.. FREE MONEY..
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Whats Bludgers? I know the covidians love getting paid to not work.
@similarexperience lazy ppl who want the government to be their parents
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout yuck. that unfortunately is the new excuse for a western man that now prevails.
Miklee02 · 51-55, F
My eyes are wide open 👀

 
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