[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Pairadocs

BINGO ! Covid, while it has brought out (in our neighborhood at least) "some" exceptionally kind, caring, neighbors who do not hesitate to help others and don't act like Covid is like leprosy and refuse to even look at their neighbors, in general, it has changed people and not for the best. From my professional education and career, I can tell you of all human emotions, fear is the root of so much irrational behavior and as bad as this all is, so was small pox, polio, and many others, yet, never in my life time have to many allowed this to turn them so vile and judgmental and and disrespectful. For example, if your neighbor has decided going to church in person is what is right for them right now, and you have decided it is not right for YOU right now, why the HATE and public mocking ? If you prefer Coke, and your neighbor prefers Pepsi, why HATE them for that ? ? No, there is something wrong deep inside when people feel this COMPULSION to shame and defile those who do not think EXACTLY as they do.

Sorry but, that "Pepsi vs Coke" thing is a MERE small personal choice about a TRIVIAL preference. Pretend that you are a COVID virus riding on a droplet expelled from some human being's nose or mouth. You (the virus) do NOT care if you infect a Pepsi drinker or a Coke drinker. You are equally effective against either one. That is why that "Pepsi vs Coke" analogy had ZERO transference to the issue of the current CV Plague that affects each individual in TV Land or any human (and some animals apparently) in the world! I am also sorry that my rhetoric is about how serious the EVOLVING Virus actually is. I am sorry that I do NOT understand why so many people on this forum want to downplay that seriousness. I do this because I believe that if more people recognized the magnitude of the problem, then they could react BETTER as a society to fix the problem. It probably could (?) have been fixed months ago if EVERYBODY from a local level upward had been of ONE MIND and determined to put it behind us. I see other countries like Australia taking CV seriously and here in the US it is treated as a non-event, practically a joke. Some will next call me paranoid but, I feel that I am only realistic and I am trying to warn about what I see here locally as treating CV as a non-event. I do NOT think that is a smart attitude! We are older and more experienced, we should be the thought leaders on this subject, not the thought deniers!