Originally Posted by
Seneca Pilot
I may be missing your point but you are definitely missing mine. I am living my life exactly normally. I go to the store, restaurants, and on vacations. I will either have already been exposed to the virus or will be. There is no way to escape an airborne virus. It is coming for you unless you completely isolate yourself from society. Any measures you take to avoid the virus will only prolong the time until you inevitably are exposed.
You are being pretty arrogant and dismissive of people's intelligence if you believe that they can't act responsibly on vacation. I am not advocating that you should be drunk, dancing on tables, and rubbing up against strangers in a night club. I am saying that a family can take a vacation without measurably increasing their risk of catching a virus. Especially since that virus will, like all other airborne viruses, eventually make its way to you anyway.
Look around you, there are millions of people living their lives without dying. The treatment methods and drug protocols have improved so much as doctors have gained experience that a fat 74 year old who has never eaten a healthy meal in his life can now recover in days. This virus is not even close to the doom and gloom predictions from months ago but we seem to be acting as if they were true.
You can stay in the house and change your life if you want. I will be out enjoying life.
Now you're conflating arguments.
I'm not saying people must stay locked up in their house and shouldn't try to live. Mask, social distancing, testing, and all the other tools in the Public Health tool box is intended to help us try and resume some semblance of normalcy once we've reached the appropriate baseline.
I get on with my life. Just had lunch at a restaurant with a buddy of mine today, and I've taken my family, 6 of us, on two trips already, including on an airplane. I'm cognizant of the increased risks, but comfortable that the consequences of being infected should be minimal for us, given our family history. It doesn't mean in the back of my mind, I'm not aware that things could actually go sideways, so that's where each of us have to figure out our own risk tolerance.
As far as your accusation of me being dismissive of people's intelligence about whether people can be trusted to be responsible on vacation - Please, get off your sanctimonious high horse. Lol
First, you don't understand human nature. I didn't say EVERYBODY on vacation is going to disregard the guideline. I've bought into the need for following the guidelines, and even I found myself slipping, and I've seen other people slipping too, on vacation.
Second, we've actually seen first hand college kids blatantly disregarding the guidelines with their stupid behavior.
And third, in general we know that there are some people who haven't bought into the public health guidelines related to Corona and its borne out by their actions.
So finally, I'm gonna say this one last time, because now we're beating a dead horse. You take on increased risk, when you take on increased activities. That is just statistics and probabilities. It's just Math.
I can lead a horse to water, but I can't force him to drink.