New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by tldrthelaw on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:32PM (#29355873)

We do have another choice, continuing to buy time to add to the arsenal of weapons we have against the virus. Things are only simple when you frame the issue simply; reality is complicated. You need only imagine yourself flickering out to see the value in doing what you can to keep someone from the same fate.

We are all alive in our heads just like you are in yours.

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by spookthesunset on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:58PM (#29356493)

You are free to live that existence all you want but that is your own personal risk assessment. Vaccines were the end of the game for governments being able to dictate our own risk assessments. There is literally nothing else we can do besides vaccines and treatments.

To suggest it is totally cool to play this game 2 years into this requires an awful lot of privilege.

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by tldrthelaw on Sunday November 28, 2021 @08:26PM (#29375245)

Just repeating that something is "the end game" doesn't make it so. That isn't how public health works.

There is no certain amount of privilege required to "play this game" for 2 years than 1 year, or 1 month. You're setting up arbitrary lines in the sand and pretending they're laws of nature or maybe government.

I understand 2 years is as long as you want to wait, but we're all doing things we don't want to be doing. Such is the cost of living in a society.

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