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RaceBannon
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,855 Swaye's Wigwam
    Silly answer: Just as much as they can guarantee it today
  • MelloDawg
    MelloDawg Member Posts: 6,917

    Can you imagine in 1843 being a couple of recently married 18 year olds setting out from Missouri for the Pacific Northwest via wagon train to establish a new life being confronted by the question if going to school in the fall of 2020 was too risky? Our society is morally shot. Stupid and frightened by our own shadow.

    The irony is that those people probably died of a pandemic that wasn't treatable or for which there was no vaccine so they couldn't be confronted with that question anyway.
  • MelloDawg
    MelloDawg Member Posts: 6,917
    Swaye said:

    MelloDawg said:

    Can you imagine in 1843 being a couple of recently married 18 year olds setting out from Missouri for the Pacific Northwest via wagon train to establish a new life being confronted by the question if going to school in the fall of 2020 was too risky? Our society is morally shot. Stupid and frightened by our own shadow.

    The irony is that those people probably died of a pandemic that wasn't treatable or for which there was no vaccine so they couldn't be confronted with that question anyway.
    And then as a society we were stronger because the weak sick losers died. Only in modern society is natural selection no longer a thing. We are worse off for it. We, collectively, are the products of the ones that could outrun the others before the sabre tooth tigers got them. When you go to WalMart and see all the fat asses, blame a lack of tigers and natural selection.
    Fair points and probably true, but you know ideas like Darwinism and herd immunity to this aren't going to play with a considerably large group of people since they think there are measures we can take now to prevent it that don't involve killing people off or intentionally letting it spread. Whether those ideas are tenable while keeping the economy afloat is another issue.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,749 Standard Supporter
    MelloDawg said:

    Swaye said:

    MelloDawg said:

    Can you imagine in 1843 being a couple of recently married 18 year olds setting out from Missouri for the Pacific Northwest via wagon train to establish a new life being confronted by the question if going to school in the fall of 2020 was too risky? Our society is morally shot. Stupid and frightened by our own shadow.

    The irony is that those people probably died of a pandemic that wasn't treatable or for which there was no vaccine so they couldn't be confronted with that question anyway.
    And then as a society we were stronger because the weak sick losers died. Only in modern society is natural selection no longer a thing. We are worse off for it. We, collectively, are the products of the ones that could outrun the others before the sabre tooth tigers got them. When you go to WalMart and see all the fat asses, blame a lack of tigers and natural selection.
    Fair points and probably true, but you know ideas like Darwinism and herd immunity to this aren't going to play with a considerably large group of people since they think there are measures we can take now to prevent it that don't involve killing people off or intentionally letting it spread. Whether those ideas are tenable while keeping the economy afloat is another issue.
    Starving on the street is a much better option.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    MelloDawg said:

    Swaye said:

    MelloDawg said:

    Can you imagine in 1843 being a couple of recently married 18 year olds setting out from Missouri for the Pacific Northwest via wagon train to establish a new life being confronted by the question if going to school in the fall of 2020 was too risky? Our society is morally shot. Stupid and frightened by our own shadow.

    The irony is that those people probably died of a pandemic that wasn't treatable or for which there was no vaccine so they couldn't be confronted with that question anyway.
    And then as a society we were stronger because the weak sick losers died. Only in modern society is natural selection no longer a thing. We are worse off for it. We, collectively, are the products of the ones that could outrun the others before the sabre tooth tigers got them. When you go to WalMart and see all the fat asses, blame a lack of tigers and natural selection.
    Fair points and probably true, but you know ideas like Darwinism and herd immunity to this aren't going to play with a considerably large group of people since they think there are measures we can take now to prevent it that don't involve killing people off or intentionally letting it spread. Whether those ideas are tenable while keeping the economy afloat is another issue.
    Fair point as well. I know this is blasphemy now, but I do not mind some death. If the bodies were really stacked like cordwood full on Bubonic Plague shit then yeah, let's shut it down. But this is a glorified flu. Sometimes people just have to die. Been going on for thousands of years. Likely to continue.
  • Houhusky
    Houhusky Member Posts: 5,537
    edited July 2020
    Swaye said:

    MelloDawg said:

    Swaye said:

    MelloDawg said:

    Can you imagine in 1843 being a couple of recently married 18 year olds setting out from Missouri for the Pacific Northwest via wagon train to establish a new life being confronted by the question if going to school in the fall of 2020 was too risky? Our society is morally shot. Stupid and frightened by our own shadow.

    The irony is that those people probably died of a pandemic that wasn't treatable or for which there was no vaccine so they couldn't be confronted with that question anyway.
    And then as a society we were stronger because the weak sick losers died. Only in modern society is natural selection no longer a thing. We are worse off for it. We, collectively, are the products of the ones that could outrun the others before the sabre tooth tigers got them. When you go to WalMart and see all the fat asses, blame a lack of tigers and natural selection.
    Fair points and probably true, but you know ideas like Darwinism and herd immunity to this aren't going to play with a considerably large group of people since they think there are measures we can take now to prevent it that don't involve killing people off or intentionally letting it spread. Whether those ideas are tenable while keeping the economy afloat is another issue.
    Fair point as well. I know this is blasphemy now, but I do not mind some death. If the bodies were really stacked like cordwood full on Bubonic Plague shit then yeah, let's shut it down. But this is a glorified flu. Sometimes people just have to die. Been going on for thousands of years. Likely to continue.
    Like most things it just needs some PR work...

    Herd immunity? Call it community vaccination, Healthy reparation tax, or something anti-Trump. Anyone who disagrees is an alt-right Russian antivaxxer.

    Encourage Vid parties for healthy people under 45, offer up some Trump bucks, and get that Herd immunity % over the threshold and the disease disappears without risk to the isolated vulnerable population in a few weeks.