Originally Posted by SSlow

Gov. Wheelchair for opening Texas back up 100%. Dude took a stand, obviously a figurative stand since he cannot use his legs,

Originally Posted by Furloughedboi

I hate the trend of politics and social issues lately, the division. All the pitting against one another and taking sides.

However, with covid, all the people who support the lockdowns and restrictions have really fooled themselves. When you ask, “who can I help,” you’re already deceiving yourself. The full question is really, “who can I help by hurting someone else I don’t think is as valuable?”

All the people who need “help” during this pandemic have a really easy way to help themselves; stay home, if they want, and live in a bubble of isolation. Covid would have torn through the population much quicker and we’d be past immunity by now, and the people who wanted to stay safe could have easily made that decision.

But no, our leaders felt it was necessary to hurt many instead of hurt a few. Tricked people by saying, “if you just _____ you can SAVE LIVES!”
It’s the biggest load of bull crap I’ve witnessed in my life. Nobody cares about saving lives. Every single hypocrite saying we have to follow the rules because it can save lives does the following: drives, and drives distracted.
People die in car accidents every single day; if we cared about lives, we would stop driving cars. Funny how people don’t seem to think that’s an issue.
I get the same rebuttal: “well we have driving laws and stuff to make it safer.” We still have deaths, all the time.100% preventable if all the “heroes” out there would stop driving the car and advocate others to do the same.

You wanna save lives? Tell grandma and grandpa that if they want to have family over, it has to be outside and socially distant for a year. That would save their lives

Me? I could have gotten covid. I would have lived. My kid would have lived. You’re not saving my life and I never asked you too. All you’ve done is put me out of work for a year, encouraged my wife to fall back into her suicidal depression, encouraged myself to fall into a bit of hopeless depression, encouraged my sister to fall into a depression because her friends/landlords shunned her for breaking covid rules, took away my in-law’s education for a year, and made an entire state full of weird people who think they need to wear a mask when they go for a walk.

Or, and hear was my least favorite experience during a temp job delivering boxes: I didn’t wear a mask (because I’m not stupid). One day I’m dropping off a box to a house and a guy and his 4-5 yr old daughter was out front. I said, “good afternoon,” as I’m rummaging for his package. I start walking towards the door. He has his hands full so I didn’t go towards him, but his daughter was near the porch. He immediately says to his daughter, “Emma, come here...come here NOW.” Caps are used only emphasize sternness. Let me mention, he was wearing his mask while on his front lawn, and me, mr Danger Covid Man, was not. The subtle lesson he taught his daughter, in my eyes, was a tragedy. “Stay away from people. Maybe even fear certain people.” She was excited to see a guy dropping off boxes right up until her dad subconsciously made her aware she shouldn’t be

Originally Posted by Furloughedboi

I hate the trend of politics and social issues lately, the division. All the pitting against one another and taking sides.

However, with covid, all the people who support the lockdowns and restrictions have really fooled themselves. When you ask, “who can I help,” you’re already deceiving yourself. The full question is really, “who can I help by hurting someone else I don’t think is as valuable?”

All the people who need “help” during this pandemic have a really easy way to help themselves; stay home, if they want, and live in a bubble of isolation. Covid would have torn through the population much quicker and we’d be past immunity by now, and the people who wanted to stay safe could have easily made that decision.

But no, our leaders felt it was necessary to hurt many instead of hurt a few. Tricked people by saying, “if you just _____ you can SAVE LIVES!”
It’s the biggest load of bull crap I’ve witnessed in my life. Nobody cares about saving lives. Every single hypocrite saying we have to follow the rules because it can save lives does the following: drives, and drives distracted.
People die in car accidents every single day; if we cared about lives, we would stop driving cars. Funny how people don’t seem to think that’s an issue.
I get the same rebuttal: “well we have driving laws and stuff to make it safer.” We still have deaths, all the time.100% preventable if all the “heroes” out there would stop driving the car and advocate others to do the same.

You wanna save lives? Tell grandma and grandpa that if they want to have family over, it has to be outside and socially distant for a year. That would save their lives

Me? I could have gotten covid. I would have lived. My kid would have lived. You’re not saving my life and I never asked you too. All you’ve done is put me out of work for a year, encouraged my wife to fall back into her suicidal depression, encouraged myself to fall into a bit of hopeless depression, encouraged my sister to fall into a depression because her friends/landlords shunned her for breaking covid rules, took away my in-law’s education for a year, and made an entire state full of weird people who think they need to wear a mask when they go for a walk.

Or, and hear was my least favorite experience during a temp job delivering boxes: I didn’t wear a mask (because I’m not stupid). One day I’m dropping off a box to a house and a guy and his 4-5 yr old daughter was out front. I said, “good afternoon,” as I’m rummaging for his package. I start walking towards the door. He has his hands full so I didn’t go towards him, but his daughter was near the porch. He immediately says to his daughter, “Emma, come here...come here NOW.” Caps are used only emphasize sternness. Let me mention, he was wearing his mask while on his front lawn, and me, mr Danger Covid Man, was not. The subtle lesson he taught his daughter, in my eyes, was a tragedy. “Stay away from people. Maybe even fear certain people.” She was excited to see a guy dropping off boxes right up until her dad subconsciously made her aware she shouldn’t be

Originally Posted by 400000Dead

Opposing safety nets is just another tenet of your Death Cult.

Originally Posted by 400000Dead

It's an interesting story to be sure, the one theme that sticks out to me is how self-absorbed it is.

You're sad that someone told their kids to stay away from your irresponsible self? Aww..

You might have not seen COVID up close, but 560,000 families have.

Theres been a lot of tragedies that have happened during this pandemic. But pretending COVID isn't real and we did all this just to be mean to you is just childish.

If your family has a history of depression, I encourage you to seek help. But don't blame people wearing masks for it.

Originally Posted by 400000Dead

It's an interesting story to be sure, the one theme that sticks out to me is how self-absorbed it is.

You're sad that someone told their kids to stay away from your irresponsible self? Aww.

Originally Posted by Furloughedboi

Irresponsible? You’re just as ignorant of reality as he is. You don’t spread covid by dropping off a box, do you really not know anything?

Originally Posted by 400000Dead

Your wife has my sympathy and I hope she can find the help she needs. But in all fairness to COVID, you can't spread suicidal depression by breathing on someone. So that's a poor comparison.

I just found out tonight that I have another friend in the hospital with double pneumonia from COVID. This nightmare won't end because you idiots won't mask up.

COVID is real.