[ExI] Is the USA doing too much to prevent COVID-19?

[SR Ballard]

As a note, without government intervention, us “cowerers” are not allowed to stay home. Due to government action, I was allowed to stay home without losing my job. 

AND in the South, we were not legally allowed to wear face masks, because KKK, before government intervention.

SR Ballard

> On Apr 29, 2020, at 9:52 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:46 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>  It divides societies between the paid and not paid. 
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> ### I am one of the paid ones. I have not missed a night off work, keep doing my 12 hour shifts seven nights a week, 31 days a month, hopefully 350 nights a year spent in the hospital. The lockdowns so far have not harmed, merely inconvenienced me.
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> And yet I am quite passionately opposed to lockdowns, lock, stock and barrel.
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> We the people must be allowed to make the tradeoffs regarding our lives.
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> If you buy into the virus doom hype, by all means cower at home. Give up on most of your life in the hope of avoiding a 1:1000 to 1:100,000,000 chance of dying, depending on your demographic. But the rest of us must be able to decide what kind of risk to accept for what kind of reward. Us going out, mingling and sharing our diverse bacteria, viruses and even protozoa does not stop the cowering ones from cowering, does not inflict any added risk of infection on them, since they cower at home, while we mingle outside. 
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> To each his own.
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> Rafal
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