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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Do these imbeciles get to spread it around to the public? Do they get to use the ventilators that might otherwise save someone who unwittingly caught the virus might need?
    Keep reading, the Owlwoman is doing fine without your "help". I know you are scared of people who try to get natural immunity to things... It's okay. While we (you and I) wouldn't do that, their motivation isn't to get you ill, it is to gain that immunity.
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    Maybe we should call it Coronavirus Award. Like Darwin's Award.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Keep reading, the Owlwoman is doing fine without your "help". I know you are scared of people who try to get natural immunity to things... It's okay. While we (you and I) wouldn't do that, their motivation isn't to get you ill, it is to gain that immunity.
    So you are not willing to answer my questions. Why did you even waste your time responding?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Maybe we should call it Coronavirus Award. Like Darwin's Award.
    For the ones that die, we surely could. Though, your hopefulness aside, their death is unlikely, as is their desire to infect others without their consent. Folks who do this kind of thing (think of chicken pox "parties" that some parents in the past would do) aren't trying to get anybody else sick, they're just trying to gain that immunity. I understand the reasoning behind the motivation, even if I think it is foolish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    So you are not willing to answer my questions. Why did you even waste your time responding?
    Refusing to repeat is not refusal to respond. As I said, keep reading. I've responded to those kind of things already.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    For the ones that die, we surely could. Though, your hopefulness aside, their death is unlikely, as is their desire to infect others without their consent. Folks who do this kind of thing (think of chicken pox "parties" that some parents in the past would do) aren't trying to get anybody else sick, they're just trying to gain that immunity. I understand the reasoning behind the motivation, even if I think it is foolish.
    I don't hope for their death. But yes it's foolish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Right. Gotcha.


    So you weren't talking about yourself when you said: "Does body sovereignity (sic) give them the right to infect me (bold and italics are mine) when I encounter one at Meijer or when he hands my (bold and italics are mine) to-go order out the drive-through window?"? Methinks you protest too much, milady.
    That was rhetorical and you know it. I could have just as easily substituted "you" for "me." Maybe I should have since you seem confused.

    Right. (rolls eyes)... Me staying at home is the same as a "robber baron" and means that death means nothing to me... It especially means that if I refuse to believe the nefarious motivation you assign to others based on nothing other than your hopeful projection of their existence "without morality".
    Again, hyperbole and rhetoric as the point flies right on by. I wasn't discussing you staying at home. I was discussing your opinion that the current state of affairs -- stay-at-home orders and the closing of non-essential businesses -- is more damaging to the economy than are the deaths of untold-as-yet numbers of citizens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Refusing to repeat is not refusal to respond. As I said, keep reading. I've responded to those kind of things already.
    Your original post was so senseless that why would even I bother?!
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    we will not let you nwo people shut down the world over this shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    That was rhetorical and you know it. I could have just as easily substituted "you" for "me." Maybe I should have since you seem confused.



    Again, hyperbole and rhetoric as the point flies right on by. I wasn't discussing you staying at home. I was discussing your opinion that the current state of affairs -- stay-at-home orders and the closing of non-essential businesses -- is more damaging to the economy than are the deaths of untold-as-yet numbers of citizens.
    Yeah... "not even a little of what I said suggested".. blah, blah. Then, suddenly you realize... then equally suddenly it was "rhetorical" and I somehow "knew it" by the 'tone' of your text apparently...

    I see the pattern: Say something mildly objectionable, get a return mildly sarcastic answer, then say "hyperbole" and pretend it makes it better... I get you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Yeah... "not even a little of what I said suggested".. blah, blah. Then, suddenly you realize... then equally suddenly it was "rhetorical" and I somehow "knew it" by the 'tone' of your text apparently...
    I see the pattern: Say something mildly objectionable, get a return mildly sarcastic answer, then say "hyperbole" and pretend it makes it better... I get you.
    You see something but it's not a "pattern". Let's start over. I originally responded to you in Post #21. Here it is. Tell me where, exactly, I stated that the COVID party kids in a state hundreds of miles away were out to get me personally:

    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Really? So a group of kids here in town have a COVID party and infect each other, then go about their merry ways. Does body sovereignity give them the right to infect me when I encounter one at Meijer or when he hands my to-go order out the drive-through window? Does it give them the right to give it to their grandma or infant nephew or their aunt with MS?
    If someone wants to invite his COVID-positive buddy over to cough on him so he gets an immunity, fine. Should either of them then be allowed to wander about their town spreading it as they go to work and to hang out with friends? Or should they stay at home till well again? I am going with stay at home and keep your bugs to yourself, for the sake of everyone else.

    You seem to think that the economy overrides the public health and safety of their community. As you said before you got all personal, in Post #25: "I think we are paying too high of a price for minimal safety, ..."
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    You see something but it's not a "pattern". Let's start over. I originally responded to you in Post #21. Here it is. Tell me where, exactly, I stated that the COVID party kids in a state hundreds of miles away were out to get me personally:



    If someone wants to invite his COVID-positive buddy over to cough on him so he gets an immunity, fine. Should either of them then be allowed to wander about their town spreading it as they go to work and to hang out with friends? Or should they stay at home till well again? I am going with stay at home and keep your bugs to yourself, for the sake of everyone else.

    You seem to think that the economy overrides the public health and safety of their community. As you said before you got all personal, in Post #25: "I think we are paying too high of a price for minimal safety, ..."
    I "seem to think" that my "buddy" (not mine, I called them fools but okay, my "buddy") who gets sick isn't going out to "get" you (royal you, not personal you), even though you're (again royal you, not personal you) scared. Though I did talk about criminality in that case... hmm. Maybe I don't think that would be "okay" or that they "get to" do that without repercussion.... It's possible I don't think they do... Maybe... sorta... evidenced by my actual responses... possibly...

    I also seem to think that the longer term economic impact is important and that we should weigh the cost, as it could be more dangerous than the cure. However, I say "may" and "could", then follow the social distancing recommendations, not because I know that bad stuff is going to happen, but because I am a responsible human being.

    Now you tell me that those people are going to go out and "get" people because you think poorly of folks that do things differently than you, not because you have any evidence of it, and you seem to think that any cost is worth it even if it means the poorest among us cannot afford simple necessities and are at risk regardless of their relative safety from the virus... I just don't. You won't convince me that any cost is "worth it" here or at any other time, cost benefit analysis is something we, as the government, should do....

    Now, as a person that grew up wondering at times where my next meal may be from I know that the government isn't going to be quick enough, nor will it really care. As an entity government projects even less empathy//sympathy than other privately owned entities that rely on customers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I also seem to think that the longer term economic impact is important and that we should weigh the cost, as it could be more dangerous than the cure. However, I say "may" and "could", then follow the social distancing recommendations, not because I know that bad stuff is going to happen, but because I am a responsible human being.
    A lot of ppl feel that way. I'm married to one of them. Eventually we will have to open things back up, and it won't be pretty. There will be fallout. There will be far more deaths.

    Now you tell me that those people are going to go out and "get" people because you think poorly of folks that do things differently than you,blah blah blah
    Show me where I said that in my fictional story about kids in my town having a COVID party, that I said that they were "out to get" anyone. I did not say that, did I? You are making false assumptions. I merely asked whether you thought it would be okay to expose yourself deliberately, then go about your business -- possibly spreading disease to others -- rather than self-quarantining. You have yet to respond to *that*.

    So do you think it's okay to deliberately expose yourself to an illness in the hope of getting immunity, but not taking precautions to keep from spreading it to others? Isn't that you making a health decision for others that maybe they didn't want? As I said before, if they want to get sick fine -- just stay home then and don't share it with those of us who do not want it. That's no different than someone choosing to smoke. It's his lungs and his health. But he has no right to stand by the door and puff it in your face as you pass by, does he?

    Now, as a person that grew up wondering at times where my next meal may be from I know that the government isn't going to be quick enough, nor will it really care. As an entity government projects even less empathy//sympathy than other privately owned entities that rely on customers.
    No, the government's role should be to assist us in handling our own health and safety, not to be Daddy and Mommy. And that's what they are doing, slow and inept as it seems they are at times. They also have a duty to protect citizens against morons like the "Let's have a party and all get COVID" types; hence the mandated social distancing in many regions.

    BTW, you are not the only one who has wondered about your next meal.

    Have a good day, and stay well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    Remember the measles or was it chickenpox parties. Brilliant.

    Kentuckians get together to hold a ‘coronavirus party’ — and it works


    Published
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    March 24, 2020
    By
    Matthew Chapman




    The number of coronavirus cases in Kentucky has now jumped to 163, with 39 new cases on Tuesday.
    And according to the Courier-Journal, not all of these cases may have been accidental — Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) is announcing that at least one of the cases is linked to a “coronavirus party” in which people gathered together to deliberately spread the disease amongst themselves.

    It is unclear why, exactly, anyone would want to deliberately infect themselves at a “coronavirus party.” But regardless of the reason, it worked.

    Beshear condemned the practice sharply, warning residents not to take part in similar events.

    “Anyone who goes to something like this, may think that they are indestructible,” he said in a statement. “But its someone else’s loved one that they are going to hurt … This is something that no one should be doing across the commonwealth.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/ken...-and-it-works/


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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Back in the day, mothers in the UK used to have measles and chickenpox parties.
    I was thinking that, too. I remember mostly it was chicken pox. It made sense to get it over with while young and then
    have that immunity. I wasn't so lucky. I first got it when I was 43...still came through just fine, but the ordeal was a little rougher.
    So, the doctors say that once you get Covid virus, it's another natural inoculation against it for the future.
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