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Re:Turning the world into a 'safe space' – but at what cost? by chrisco255 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:15PM (#23850227)
Look, if you want to live in a bubble, you should be free to strap on an airtight suit and walk around in it. Personally, I'm healthy, young, symptomless, and I've got a strong immune system and I'm fully aware of the risks of disease. But life is too short to spend years of your short existence cowering in fear or being arbitrarily controlled with what you can and can't do by power hungry politicians who think they can regulate nanometer sized viruses out of existence. The cost is way too high.

My ancestors went to war to fight for freedom. Many of them died on the battlefield. I don't take that for granted, and I do not consent to yielding it to Covid Karens.

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Re:Turning the world into a 'safe space' – but at what cost? by Barrin92 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:44PM (#23850620)
>Look, if you want to live in a bubble, you should be free to strap on an airtight suit and walk around in it.

In my country we did that for three months and now we have 100 infections per day and everyone's life has returned to 90% normal.

Which was literally my point. If you on occassion listen to experts and officials and do what they say then you don't need to tell yourself stories about your brave ancestors and their battles in the normandy, you simply solve problems, and then life goes back to normal, without deaths and with the freedoms you had before.

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Re:Turning the world into a 'safe space' – but at what cost? by chrisco255 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:13PM (#23852870)
What's 90% normal? Are you able to go to church, concerts, movies, school, bars, restaurants, with no mask requirements and no occupancy requirements?
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