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Old 04-03-2021, 09:19 AM
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Firefighterpilo
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Originally Posted by Furloughedboi View Post
Are you just so defensive of the failure of how we handled covid that you aren’t reading what you’re writing?
They said, and I paraphrase, “SIP didn’t really do much. Yes, it saved lives, but not nearly as many as the officials say.” Yes, it worked in the beginning (no duh, people were actually scared in the beginning and actually stayed home). But you can’t SIP forever, and that’s exactly what this study is showing. It’s showing that in a controlled environment, SIP works. But in REAL LIFE, it doesn’t work. People are people and it is inhumane to expect people to be afraid and not leave their house for an undisclosed amount of time.
In real life, you can’t eradicate a virus that is highly contagious by just hiding from it. People are designed to live their lives, and that’s what they did.

In a perfect world, we could kill the virus in 3 weeks by not a single person leaving their house. But this isn’t a perfect word; some people have “essential” jobs, some people have terrible homes, some people have no homes, some people don’t care about the rules, the list goes on and on.

This study shows what many have been saying all along (not the MSM or progressive politicians); the SIP orders were terrible because they don’t account for real life circumstances.

It doesn’t matter how many models show it SHOULD work because the reality is they don’t work.

And further, they’re flawed from the very beginning. The goal of SIP is to stop the spread of a virus. That doesn’t line up remotely with the goal of life. Life goals are feed your family, work, provide, have fun, visit family, do new things, be active. Life isn’t about stopping a virus. So you can’t throw a bunch of orders on a nation and expect them to follow it without question when it doesn’t line up with the other important aspects of life.

If you wanna drink the koolaid and think you’re saving lives, by all means, be a hero. But don’t put your life choices on others and expect them to do the same without question.
Beautifully put.
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