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> I've never heard anyone argue that it's a "sacrifice", and one worth making at that. Are you sure you're not just misrepresenting a view you dislike? In whic
by dqv 6y ago
> I've never heard anyone argue that it's a "sacrifice", and one worth making at that. Are you sure you're not just misrepresenting a view you dislike?
In which case?
Floyd protesters: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/health/pandemic-protesters-covid-risk-floyd-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/health/pandemic-protesters-co...
In the case with the Floyd protesters, it's more abstract, but the same sentiment is there. I'd have to go back through my feed to find the specific examples of people explicitly saying they are okay with the possibility of dying from coronavirus.
Back-to-workers: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/23/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-says-bad-economy-worse-coronavirus/ https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/23/texas-lt-gov-dan-pat...
> "No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?' And if that's the exchange, I'm all in," he said. "And that doesn't make me noble or brave or anything like that.
> "I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me ... that what we all care about and what we all love more than anything are those children," he added. "And I want to, you know, live smart and see through this, but I don't want to see the whole country to be sacrificed, and that's what I see."