Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks

Re:Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:05AM (#27882194)

> Let people decide for themselves? Alcohol is unhealthy, so it should be banned.

Our societies socialise the costs of peoples’ bad decisions, so it can’t be 100% laissez-faire. That said, I disagree with the Prohibitionist instinct. Adding a tax that pays for the edge-case costs seems to make the most sense.

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Re:Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks by rootusrootus on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:20AM (#27882896)

I wonder if we'd need to tax the vegetarians for living too long and spending a lot of taxpayer dollars in their extended elderly years. Maybe we should actually subsidize the folks cheeseburgering their way to sudden cardiac death.

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Re:Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks by briandear on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:34AM (#27883063)

So much misinformation. Vegetarians don’t live longer. And cheeseburger eaters don’t die sooner in general.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/do-vegetarians-live-longer...

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Re:Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks by briandear on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:29AM (#27883007)

Then let’s stop socializing the costs of people’s bad decisions.

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Re:Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks by _0ffh on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:43AM (#27883861)

For some reason it sometimes seems as if people would rather everybody is responsible for everybody else's bad decisions but never their own. It's crazy, I know.

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