>>12207474You might have an underlying condition and not even know it
Also, in burgerstan, obesity and heart disease are ubiquitous and are included in "high risk" populations. I'm a "high risk" population and while I tend to take measures to secure my own safety rather than rely on others, I'd be lying if I said normalization of social distancing and mask-wearing in densely crowded spaces isn't beneficial to me. I do agree that the economic impact may be worse than the actual virus, but I also believe that if the people in charge had taken this seriously back in December and January when everyone was joking about it, we'd be in an entirely different situation and possibly these freedom-restricting measures would be less prominent and less draconian.
Philosophically, I'm at a crossroads. On one hand, give me liberty or give me death - on the other hand, why should I die for a country that doesn't even maintain its foundational principles of freedom and liberty to begin with? Similarly, it's written into the constitution that the role of the government is to provide for the "welfare of the people", which I would consider to include preventative measures to avoid a pandemic to begin with. It's pure incompetence and foolishness in gov't that let the fox into the henhouse to begin with. Dying because of incompetence is a hard pill to swallow. I'm young, I'm otherwise in good shape and healthy, I take care of myself, I live on my own - I deserve my pursuit of happiness, same as everyone else. We had systems in place to monitor disease outbreaks and act accordingly - up until SARS-CoV-2, they seemed to be working well, as we never had any outbreaks on this scale. The current administration introduced budget cuts which affected these mechanisms. Many people think the virus was engineered (I am neutral on this) - building on this, couldn't these mechanisms be considered part of the national defense budget? Bottom line - who fucked up here? Gov't. Who pays the price? We do.
