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It's not about the people going to these events, it's who those people end up infecting. A student goes to FOSDEM , catches COVID-19 without any symptoms, and
by laputan_machine 6y ago
It's not about the people going to these events, it's who those people end up infecting.
A student goes to FOSDEM , catches COVID-19 without any symptoms, and then on the way back home ends up interacting with a bunch of elderly family members, infecting them and possibly hospitalising them in the process. That's just one scenario, there are hundreds of other scenarios that will also occur.
Why take the risk?
- bryanwb 6y agoWhy live? Why cross the fucking street? Why leave your home? Why smile at people on the street? Why interact in-person w/ humans who don't live in your domicile? Because it is the essence of what makes us human. You have let Covid-19 rob you of your humanity. I won't let it rob me of mine.
- cyphar 6y agoDeath robs you of your humanity far more effectively than any lockdown. Also now that we have several effective vaccines being rolled out all over the world, it makes even less sense to have this attitude. And all this in the name of some Linux talks and pommes frites? I think you need a little bit more perspective on the situation.
- bryanwb 6y agoFear robs you of life before any credible threat. Stay in your home and turn off your Internet access. I implore you. Become obese and Vitamin D deficient. All the public health authorities are on your side. Why live when you can die? Hide in your toilette eating ramen. The rest of us are going to live.
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- cyphar 6y agoI live in Australia, so my life has been back to normal for several months now. I get the feeling you are afraid of something though, so maybe you're projecting those fears onto other people.
- bryanwb 6y agoAnd if the vaccines don't work you will be stuck in Australia for years w/out the ability to leave your country . . . or your home! Further, as an Australian you have given up all your civil rights for fear of Covid-19. Hope you don't miss them. I am afraid of my 77 year old mother catching Covid-19. However, she will not be attending FOSDEM :). And if she lived with me neither would I.
- cyphar 6y agoI've been able to leave my home this entire pandemic. What are you even talking about. And given how badly the rest of the planet is handling things, I wouldn't leave Australia even if I could (though we can visit New Zealand, which is pretty nice this time of year). ("If the vaccines don't work" is a pretty big if given we have a plethora of evidence that they are effective. You can't "what if" yourself into a reasonable argument.)
- You-Are-Right 6y agoYou can meet many people as a volunteer in a Covid station in a hospital in many countries right now. Also helping to burn bodies.