not sure I agree that marijuana is a good comparison.
Civil disobedience of the Civil Rights era, then.
unlike this post
You give me too much credit.
doesn't negatively impact society at large
It's choosing between a rock and a hard place. In the end I decided that cooperating with a lockdown and mask mandates was more harmful to society than my back-of-the-napkin worst case scenario of 2 million dead inside 3-4 months (with a 20% of being one of them).
civil rights era civil disobedience may be a better comparison but not by much. not many (though too many still) owe the successes of the movement to the most extreme among them who actively undermined government authority and spread extreme ideology. whether you would consider a sit-in to undermine or just oppose authority i suppose is debatable, though.
i was talking about this post, not your comment.
first off, you can't calculate other peoples' risk for them and by not adhering to public health policy, you endanger others more than yourself (unless you have a condition). second, i'm glad 2 million dead in months sounds fine to you but its not acceptable to normal people. finally, i'm going to want to see that napkin math.
i was talking about this post, not your comment.
I suppose I should add that I agree the tweet is a harmful one. Not because it is subversive, but because it is dishonest subversion. Does the CDC's art department genuinely think the people getting vaccinated are NPCs? I doubt it. They picked a minimalist art style that is very common in infographics. Big whoop.
whether you would consider a sit-in to undermine or just oppose authority i suppose is debatable
Undermining the cultural norm, but in a more nuanced and healthier way than the violent radicals were. Less risk of cave-ins, as it were.
you can't calculate other peoples' risk for them
No I can't, and neither can the government. If grandma is at risk, grandma needs to make the decision to shelter in place on her own. You can't go locking down everyone else on grandma's behalf. Grandma doesn't have many more years in her, and she might just decide that risking one more Christmas with the grandkids is worth more than 18 lonely months without them. One old lady in Britain went through an assisted suicide because they were going into a second round of lockdowns, and she couldn't handle the isolation.
(unless you have a condition)
I've got leaky alveoli, which has made my lungs collapse a few times. Covid isn't great on the lungs, but I'm not entirely sure whether this particular problem is a risk factor.
i'm glad 2 million dead in months sounds fine to you but its not acceptable to normal people.
It doesn't sound fine; it sounds terrible. But mandates from on high put us on a road towards those government paradigms that kill tens of millions and enslave the rest. Better to just keep everyone informed about best practices and let people make their own choices about what precautions are appropriate for themselves.
finally, i'm going to want to see that napkin math.
Irresponsible cherry-picking of all the worse stats floating around in the early weeks. For example, a lot of countries were estimating that 50-60% of their populations would catch it. Germany said that 70% of Germans, so I went with that. 20% of cases were serious enough to be hospitalized, and so on. Multiplied by 370 million 'muricans.
For myself as an essential worker, I rounded my chances of catching it up to 100%. That gave me a 20% chance of being hospitalized, and regardless of whether my lungs are vulnerable to covid, those ventilators were shredding alveoli left and right. So either covid would make me drown in my own blood, or the hospital pops my lungs trying to keep me from drowning in my own blood.
im not sure i agree that marijuana is a good comparison. people don't smoke weed because they want to stick it to the man. at least most who aren't angsty teens don't. its not a conscious effort to undermine the government unlike this post and it (at least debatably) doesn't negatively impact society at large like undermining public health directives during a continuing pandemic.
i'm not sure i follow how this applies to the chauvin trial. i'm not one who thinks that police should have unlimited qualified immunity nor that they should have none. i am of the belief that any accidental or incidental death that happens while in government custody is unacceptable and deserves an adequate response and i'll post badcopnodonut posts but i'm not trying to say that police don't have authority or should be ignored.