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If a doctor tells me that I'm allergic to a bunch of foods, and I avoid them for years, I don't turn around and say "you know what, it's been 2+ years. I need t
by yupper32 5y ago
If a doctor tells me that I'm allergic to a bunch of foods, and I avoid them for years, I don't turn around and say "you know what, it's been 2+ years. I need to just live my best life. I'm just going to ignore the doctors now and eat those foods".
It sounds like everyone is just desperately trying to make excuses to ignore the experts here.
- blindmute 5y agoSo I assume you don't eat red meat or butter? The experts always warn about the health risks of that, too. There's more to life. You don't need an excuse to ignore an expert. It's your own life. You have the full autonomous right and privilege to ignore any advice for any reason you deem worthwhile. I'm eating a sausage literally right now, despite every expert telling me not to. I made this choice. You are in a cage, but the door is open. We are outside the cage urging you to leave. The experts say not to. Will you live? Or remain locked away? I don't care which you choose, but please understand that the consequence of either action is yours. You lose the right to complain about the cage when you choose to be in it.
- School-Cotton 5y agoYou keep comparing things of wildly different scales. Forgoing normal (i.e. unmasked, undistanced, etc.) social interaction is, for most people, a _much_ bigger sacrifice than giving up a few foods you're allergic to. On the other side, the risk of death or long-term life-altering consequences is _much_ smaller from ignoring Covid precautions than from eating foods you're severely allergic to. (If you didn't mean severely allergic, but only mildly intolerant, then, well, people can and do eat stuff like that all the time.)