Obesity isn't a communicable disease. And has nothing to do with our current situation. Obesity isn't the reason I can't walk into a store without a mask. It's not the reason I haven't met my friends and family in months. Stop being obtuse.
The only reason we're in the mess we are is the utter and complete mismanagement of our response. And our collective heads-in-the-sand attitude to the whole thing.
Obesity is the reason healthcare premiums are high though. I’d rather wear a mask than pay for obese people to get a quadruple bypass.
Coronavirus isn’t the reason you haven’t met your friends and family in months. The disease isn’t violent enough to warrant that level of action. Everyone I know spent their Labor Day with their friends and families. That is your decision.
> Everyone I know spent their Labor Day with their friends and families.
And that's the selfishness I'm calling out.
> That is your decision.
It's really not. I have elderly family members who are at risk from the disease. I have friends and family in other states and countries who I can't visit due to Covid travel restrictions. Do you know why those exist? Because we haven't been able to curb the spread of the disease. Because people keep saying "it's your decision" about social distancing and rather than actually doing something about the disease.
> Obesity is the reason healthcare premiums are high though.
That has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I can opt out of paying healthcare premiums. I can choose to stay fit. I can't choose not to get coronavirus and I definitely can't choose to travel someplace travel restrictions are in effect. It's an idiotic comparison, a weak deflection.
You don’t get to choose the moral high ground and have fun at the same time, otherwise everyone would do it. If these kinds of conversations fulfill you then your high ground has been worth it!
You suffer now because you’re afraid of death later. I enjoy my time now because I know death comes for us all.
I didn't choose my "moral high ground". I'm just following the laws around social distancing and travel restrictions. Which were enacted in response to people choosing fun over doing the right thing voluntarily.
"I enjoy my time now because I know death comes for us all."
Translation: I gotta have my fun because who cares if other people die or are inconvenienced.
The choice you're being presented is not:
1. Shelter in place, -0.1% chance of death
2. Go out and have fun, +0.1% chance of death
But it's actually:
1. Shelter in place, -0.1% chance of death for everyone around you
2. Go out and have fun, +0.1% chance of death for everyone around you
You are choosing to put other people at risk because it makes you happy. It's the same as drunk driving; convenient for you but a risk for everyone. Just because you didn't hit anyone this time doesn't mean it's not selfish and irresponsible.
Have you considered that this attitude might be the reason this pandemic has so affected the US in particular?