(06-25-2020 01:37 PM)CoastalAlum2011 Wrote:  

(06-25-2020 01:33 PM)debragga Wrote:  

(06-25-2020 12:48 PM)CoastalAlum2011 Wrote:  

(06-25-2020 11:50 AM)HighCountry Wrote:  

(06-25-2020 04:50 AM)CoastalAlum2011 Wrote:  You know what I call “personal responsibility”?

Recognizing that if you fall into a “vulnerable group” (Old people and the sick) that you should stay home instead of insisting that the rest of society completely change just so you can continue going out.

Maybe the EXTREME minority of people at high risk of actually dying from this thing should lock themselves down at home on their own volition out of a sense of “personal responsibility” instead of casting their economy destroying burdens on the rest of Americans that need to work to live.

Funny how we want to talk about “personal responsibility” only if it means that people are doing exactly what we want them to do. Sounds a whole lot more like tyranny to me.

It's not a complete change, it's a simple ask. Wear a little mask for 15 minutes when you go into Walmart to buy your Hungry Mans and then take it off when you leave the store. That's a much smaller burden than continuing on in isolation for an "at risk" individual.

You're acting like we're all being forced to wear burkas.

What country are you living in where wearing a mask is the only demand the government is forcing down our throats?

1. Wearing masks (but only if you have a certain skin color in some places)

What does skin color have to do with wearing a mask? Genuine question

2. Limiting capacity of business (like restaurants) thereby cutting their revenue potential in half which eliminates jobs and cuts pay for remaining workers.

Limits the amount of people in a small space, justified IMO

3. Complete shut down orders

These were pretty extreme in some places yes

4. Revoking of access to tax payer funded places with no refund issued to us.

Agreed

5. Revoking of services that us tax payers paid for (like school for our children) with no refund given to us.

Agreed

6. Devaluing of our currency due to taking on MASSIVE debt as a country that we will never be able to service. Completely screwing my generation and my children’s generation.

I haven’t looked into this much, but most people my age (young millennials/the oldest of Gen Z) thought we were screwed before any of this started anyway

7. Complete destruction of the economy.

We’ll see how we turn out after all this, but this could be likely

Those are just some of the things off the top of my head that have taken place all because old people and sick people won’t take the “personal responsibility” to stay home.

So now everyone suffers.

To answer your skin color question, see link below. Apparently some places (specifically in Oregon) are requiring all white people to wear masks, but if you are not white, you don’t have to. The supposed reason is that “people of color” have reason to fear wearing face coverings.

So basically they’re telling their white citizens they must cover their face but no one else has to.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/...eople/amp/

Which is illegal. Making once race do something, while the other doesn't have to. Apparently, they think people are so stupid that if someone is out, and they see absolutely everyone wearing a mask, and notice someone of color wearing a mask like they are supposed to, that they will think that person is trying to rob the place and might do something to harm them.