Seriously. Lax didn’t you know you can no longer have a civil discourse if opinions don’t mesh. You get called names and attacked by people who claim to embrace love and kindness. It’s a crock of crap. And sad.Originally Posted by Lax1724
Seriously. Lax didn’t you know you can no longer have a civil discourse if opinions don’t mesh. You get called names and attacked by people who claim to embrace love and kindness. It’s a crock of crap. And sad.
The funny (or sad) thing is that what set people off was when in my original post, I said that far fewer people have died than was expected. It's a math equation: 328,200,000 citizens and 623,000 have died (each one tragic and meaningful in their own right) and that equates to less than 1% ( .018%) of the population. We were told that number would be in the millions. I said nothing about vaccines or masks or political views. Like Rob, I am concerned about the people that are suffering and was just wondering out loud (something that used to be common place before social media came into our lives) if maybe the remedy is bigger than the problem. I suppose the argument could be made that masks and lockdowns prevented millions from dying but the critical thinking part of me has a hard time with that. This virus is relentless and deadly and a cloth mask is no match for it. It turns out that I can willingly wear a mask and still have that opinion based on science and there is plenty of science on both sides of that argument. It turns out that states with strict lockdowns had the same, if not worse numbers of cases than those that did not. You could make the argument based on science that the virus didn't care about lockdowns. I have decided to be brave and move forward with my trip, T-128 days and counting. I hope my t-shirt arrives in time.
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