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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I don't see anyone hysterical. I see them calm and careful. I am tired of people taunting others with labels like "paranoid" and "hysterical" and "afraid" and dismissing their being careful and knowing the risks with being a "sissy".
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I completely agree. People are free to choose their own comfort level—and free to ignore the small-minded comments about their carefulness. We see fairly consistently what happens in areas in the US and around the world when they are opened up for reasons that seem to defy public health policy—and one doesn’t have to be Nostradamus to be aware of this.
I could never wrap my head around the thinking that the percentages are so small that the disease is inconsequential overall. Remember that these now 200,000+ deaths—whether directly from COVID-19 or from a complicating issue that they had learned to live with, perhaps for many years—these are individual lives and families struggling through a terrible tragedy....