You have to understand, I may be the person you make sick. Stay home. Wear a Mask. Social distance, Our lives depend on it. You will be a lot more miserable sick, or worse.
You mean, it's what certain people's opinions, not the Constitution, says. For every "expert" that agrees with that opinion, there is another "expert" that has a different opinion. Supreme Court justices are all certainly expert in their constitutional knowledge, and they disagree on how laws can be applied all the time. There is not a single standard interpretation.
You don't know what would make another person more miserable, and have no right to tell them what to do. For me, staying home for several months or more, and missing the opportunity to make wonderful vacation memories with my 16 year-old only child, who won't be at home much longer, would be devastating to me. It would also be devastating to him, as he is overworked by his college-prep high school, hardly gets to go out as his school is online most of the time, and spent much of his childhood struggling to overcome autism. He deserves his vacations and so do I.
If people who are worried about getting sick stay home, the only people who will make them sick are those they live with.
My father was a veteran of the Normandy invasion. It is good that he believed in freedom and didn't think it was free-Dumb. Otherwise, we might not have the luxury to even go on cruises.
It is such a dishonor to our nation's service people who died fighting for our freedom to call it "free-Dumb".
I agree.
You have very eloquently laid out some of the high costs of staying home to make some people feel safer. A lot of people only see the purported benefits.
Actually no. You are most likely to be infected by someone you do not live with according to Dr. Fauci. Someone outside your bubble.
I agree about the first part. But, no our entire system of law is designed to provide structure to give everyone their maximum rights without infringing on someone else's rights. I'm sorry, you do not have the right to do something that makes someone else sick. Forget the law, the constitution, that's just common sense.
Hmmm
Where does it end? Any of our behaviors could conceivably harm someone, either directly or indirectly (think about the butterfly effect). Heck, who knows how many of us have killed people with the flu back before we had "bubbles."
Well, the Spanish Flu was contained in about 18 months. So we know what we need to do, we just don't want to do them. Even the founding fathers used quarantines in the late 1780's to control the small pox pandemic.
How was the Spanish Flu contained? I heard that it infected 500 million people and killed 20 to 50 million people? Was there a vaccine for the Spanish Flu? How long did mask mandates last (I heard 10 days in San Francisco for the first one and that most citizens ignored the second one)?
Vaccines hadn't been invented yet for any illness.. Masks were required. A $5 fine if you got caught without one. That would be an $86 dollar fine in today's dollars.
Thanks for answering.
I have no idea how long the mask mandate will last. My mom was a surgical nurse. She wore a mask 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 40 years. No big deal.
I didn't ask how long the mask mandate would last. I was asking how long the mask mandates lasted during the Spanish flu outbreak.
Read the article, it spells it out. (Free pass, 18 months for masks)
You should become educated about the history of the Spanish flu before claiming that it was "contained". There were a few local quarantines here and there, but throughout most of the world including the United States, people kept going to work and school and church as usual. It ended when herd immunity developed.
Smallpox was still a significantly circulating disease in the United States throughout most of the 1800's. Abraham Lincoln even had it while he was President. Vaccination, which began in the late 1700's, gradually led to its end, not mask use.
