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I don't miss my bar - because me and all my friends never stopped going. What people who 'Listened' don't realise is that people still go out... in every city.

I don't miss my bar - because me and all my friends never stopped going. What people who 'Listened' don't realise is that people still go out... in every city. Most sheriff's in California have flat out refused to comply with the lockdown regulations. Since when did America get the ability to shutdown business'? Never.... During this Pandemic i've lost three 'Friends' (Social Media acquaintances I knew from HS) to suicide and have not heard of a single person who's had any long-term damage from Covid and the majority of my friends have has it at one point in time by now. I got it in early March in SF and again in July in Miami. Both times i caught a little sniffle. I got tested and quarantined but it did not stop me or scare me away from living my life. Most of my friends have the money, willpower and social distain for authoritarian governments to move to wherever state is not trying to follow China's example. (Mainly Socal, Florida, even Mexico) Smoking cigs, riding motorcycles, and a million other things can kill you in this life. Live your life and anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. If you're scared of COVID stay inside, but let the rest of us live our lives.

misterS 6y ago
> anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. Do you not count spreading a virus & possibly infecting others as causing direct harm?
- RhodoGSA 6y ago
  No - I don't. If you are at a bar at the height of the pandemic, i'm definitely not causing you any harm by being there also. However, I do avoid my family who might be older. I don't go to large family gatherings. I do, however, believe American Ideals of freedom and free speech have definitely been harmed through this ordeal. No one can have any different opinion about COVID without being canceled. As we are getting more and more data, the infection rate to death ratio is dropping lower and lower. At what point does Forcing people to lose their job and their entire lively-hoods, Taking on massive amounts of national debt that MY GENERATION will have to pay for, massive suicide increases going to be counted as direct harm? When we find out in the future after scrubbing all the data that the death toll was less than 1% but the suicide rate spiked by 30%, increased our total debt by 20% and fueled a massive recession in 5 years; how will future generations feel about the decisions we made?
  - DanBC 6y ago
    > massive suicide increases > but the suicide rate spiked by 30% Neither of these have happened.
    - RhodoGSA 6y ago
      See my anecdotal comment above. Also, do alittle research on the parabolic rise in suicide hotlines. People's mental health has been damaged and that fact can't be discounted. Mental health is as important as physical health in my opinion, if not more.

misterS 6y ago

> anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. Do you not count spreading a virus & possibly infecting others as causing direct harm?

RhodoGSA 6y ago
No - I don't. If you are at a bar at the height of the pandemic, i'm definitely not causing you any harm by being there also. However, I do avoid my family who might be older. I don't go to large family gatherings. I do, however, believe American Ideals of freedom and free speech have definitely been harmed through this ordeal. No one can have any different opinion about COVID without being canceled. As we are getting more and more data, the infection rate to death ratio is dropping lower and lower. At what point does Forcing people to lose their job and their entire lively-hoods, Taking on massive amounts of national debt that MY GENERATION will have to pay for, massive suicide increases going to be counted as direct harm? When we find out in the future after scrubbing all the data that the death toll was less than 1% but the suicide rate spiked by 30%, increased our total debt by 20% and fueled a massive recession in 5 years; how will future generations feel about the decisions we made?
- DanBC 6y ago
  > massive suicide increases > but the suicide rate spiked by 30% Neither of these have happened.
  - RhodoGSA 6y ago
    See my anecdotal comment above. Also, do alittle research on the parabolic rise in suicide hotlines. People's mental health has been damaged and that fact can't be discounted. Mental health is as important as physical health in my opinion, if not more.