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There is a way to do it safely: follow the same 14-day self-quarantine regimen that's recommended for anyone who's traveled. Don't go to stores, don't go to gas
by ryanianian 7y ago
There is a way to do it safely: follow the same 14-day self-quarantine regimen that's recommended for anyone who's traveled. Don't go to stores, don't go to gas stations, pretend like there is nuclear fallout outside.
- throwanem 7y agoI feel like that's a lot of benefit of the doubt on behalf of someone who's already behaving selfishly, you know?
- ryanianian 7y agoSorry, but how is it selfish? If you can leave a dense area and self-quarantine for 14 days, you're actually doing a net positive by reducing density. The only added "risk" is that you might crash your car on the way. That feels less bad than retransmitting the disease in a crowded area.
- throwanem 7y agoYou can just as effectively, maybe more effectively, self-quarantine in a dense area, and not risk any circumstance at all leading to transmission elsewhere.
- ryanianian 7y agoIt is vastly easier to avoid casual contact in rural areas. Even going to get my packages in my building I walk past people and touch elevator buttons etc. In a rural area I just get my packages from my porch.
- ghaff 7y agoAnd relatively few people are going to voluntarily stay confined to their small city apartment for weeks. I live in a semi-rural house and I can easily go out my door and walk in the woods for an hour or two. (Or drive somewhere else quiet which I mostly haven't been doing.) The only real contact I've had with people is having gone to the grocery store a couple of times--and I could probably have used delivery for that (although with the lack of stock, that might have been challenging).
- stronglikedan 7y agoBut they're not being selfish if they're doing it correctly, as the previous comment describes.