Well I live on a military base. They've got rules in place a little more stringent than civilian neighborhoods. I don't feel like putting on a damn mask just to take a walk through my neighborhood.
Well we aren't volunteering for any of this for the most part right now are we? If it's forced on us...what other way is there to describe it?
And we've done that. Colorado Springs is a damn ghost town. It's sad.
Oh and as for your snarky "emotional" remark. There's nothing emotional in what I'm saying. I'm just stating reality in a world where you can't buy toilet paper ramen and other normal items in a store because people panicked and bought them up for no rational reason.
Emotional is buying into wildly inaccurate charts about deaths from this virus that are hawked at the highest level and repeated ad nauseam on the news and on social media and talked about like fact on forums like this.
Being emotional is worrying more about this virus and the low number of deaths so far in comparison to how many people die each year from drug over doses (68K in 2018 the last year they have data on) or the flu. Did you know that the rate of flu deaths right now is ABOVE the epidemic threshold right now? Or that 162 infants have died from the flu during the 2019-20 flu season? Yet the same doctor who runs the labs and the center that generates the stats about that particular virus isn't up in front of a podium telling people we need to shut the country down to stop its spread.
If anything I'm looking at all of this from a logical non emotion point of view. What you're doing is projection.
This was a test to see how easily people would comply...we've failed that test miserably.
But you go ahead and think I'm being "emotional" because I'm not buying into the hype like you and some others here are.
#1 - I'm not "buying the hype." Try to realize that intelligent, well informed, independent thinking people can disagree with each other.
#2 - From the beginning you have been snarking at other people accusing us of being emotional, so don't get all defensive when the snark is turned back on you. It's what happens when you start with the accusations before you listen to people. Conclusions are almost always wrong when you do that. And your conclusions are wildly wrong.
#3 - People here who take the viral threat more seriously than you do are not the people who are hoarding TP because they are scared. Conflating the two groups is stupid.
#4 - Until this issue I have always believed you to be one of the most level headed people on this forum, but your reaction and offense at the measures being taken to help the hospitals deal with the greatest health care crisis in any of our lifetimes, is seemingly very different from the rational person I always believed you to be. There are one or two others from whom I expect screeching and wailing and irrational false accusations about being lemmings and falling for leftist lies, but you were never one of them.
Until now.
I still respect you a lot, but this new over-the-top (and quite nasty) persona is one I'm going to have to get used to.
In the mean time, I'm going to be smart, and content, and considerate of the health of others and calmly stay home. And I will believe the people who know what they're doing, and not someone who is not in the medical profession posting anonymously on a political forum. So forgive me for not thinking of you as an expert.
btw.........even on a military base, there must be opportunity to be creative so that you don't lose your mind.
Try it.
