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Sure, if you have no parents or grandparents or other relatives over the age of 55 that you care about. No friends, co-workers, doctors, mentors etc over 55 who

Sure, if you have no parents or grandparents or other relatives over the age of 55 that you care about. No friends, co-workers, doctors, mentors etc over 55 who you care about. And not caring about anyone over 55 in general, as fellow human persons. And also not relying on anyone over 55 in an indirect sense - those working in and managing hospitals, legal systems, physical infrastructure, schools and universities, banking, agriculture, industry and so on. If you truly are a person like that, for you there is nothing to be concerned about - and you are probably enjoying the reaction you are getting here.

nickthemagicman 6y ago
We'll just stay away from those people it's very simple. It's not a societal problem that's an individual problem.
- l_davis 6y ago
  You might want to take a look at hospitalization rates for Covid. Here's data for Virginia, for example - https://data.virginia.gov/Government/VDH-COVID-19-PublicUseDataset-Cases_By-Age-Group/uktn-mwig https://data.virginia.gov/Government/VDH-COVID-19-PublicUseD... Lots of people under 55 hospitalized. If there is more stress on health care, some of these people won't get optimal care and will die.
  - eddiegoode 6y ago
    How long until we end this myth that hospitals will be overcrowded? That's been propaganda for the better part of a year and it hasn't happened yet, even in places with basically no Covid restrictions like Sweden and Utah.
- GavinMcG 6y ago
  That's just not feasible. "Those people" still have to eat, so they still have to come in contact with grocery store employees, for example. They still need medical care, so they still have to come in contact with a variety of medical personnel. They don't live in a bubble.
  - eddiegoode 6y ago
    What about the 50 million people in poverty in America. What about the small businesses and young people trying to get a start in life. They need to eat too.
hyperpallium2 6y ago
I know "staying away from people over 55" seems logical, but it hasn't been possible in practice to segregate by age. The problem is transistive closure. For example, in aged-care homes, the workers live in the general community, and if the virus is in the community, they get it and pass it on. Could the workers be segregated, in a bubble with the aged-care home? Their outside life would be cut off: the above social/services/supplies. Should their own families be with them in the bubble - or cut off from them? Where do you draw the line? Can it be drawn? This same issue of transistive closure occurs for all over 55. Everyone is connected, and an epidemic follows those connections. This has been better put: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

nickthemagicman 6y ago

We'll just stay away from those people it's very simple. It's not a societal problem that's an individual problem.

l_davis 6y ago
You might want to take a look at hospitalization rates for Covid. Here's data for Virginia, for example - https://data.virginia.gov/Government/VDH-COVID-19-PublicUseDataset-Cases_By-Age-Group/uktn-mwig https://data.virginia.gov/Government/VDH-COVID-19-PublicUseD... Lots of people under 55 hospitalized. If there is more stress on health care, some of these people won't get optimal care and will die.
- eddiegoode 6y ago
  How long until we end this myth that hospitals will be overcrowded? That's been propaganda for the better part of a year and it hasn't happened yet, even in places with basically no Covid restrictions like Sweden and Utah.
GavinMcG 6y ago
That's just not feasible. "Those people" still have to eat, so they still have to come in contact with grocery store employees, for example. They still need medical care, so they still have to come in contact with a variety of medical personnel. They don't live in a bubble.
- eddiegoode 6y ago
  What about the 50 million people in poverty in America. What about the small businesses and young people trying to get a start in life. They need to eat too.

hyperpallium2 6y ago

I know "staying away from people over 55" seems logical, but it hasn't been possible in practice to segregate by age. The problem is transistive closure. For example, in aged-care homes, the workers live in the general community, and if the virus is in the community, they get it and pass it on. Could the workers be segregated, in a bubble with the aged-care home? Their outside life would be cut off: the above social/services/supplies. Should their own families be with them in the bubble - or cut off from them? Where do you draw the line? Can it be drawn? This same issue of transistive closure occurs for all over 55. Everyone is connected, and an epidemic follows those connections. This has been better put: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.