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I'm not going to go get permanent lung damage and spend weeks in the ICU just so we can reopen the economy. The IFR is one thing but the long-term effects of this illness are severe. Frankly the idea that we younger people should "go take one for the team" is as unconscionable now as it was when the older generation started the Vietnam war draft.

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A "few weeks on the ICU"? Oh come on, that's melodramatic for the great bulk of the cases if you are healthy. You aren't going to spend "weeks" on a ICU, believe me.

self-infect and self-quarantine, so you won't accidentally spread it to the immune repressed or grandma or whatever. Not only is this not "unconsciounable", I think the opposite. I have great respect for people who put themselves out of their way to protect other, less fortunate people.

Go right ahead and please show us all how it's done.

How long until the ICU has drained the queue of supplies and tools that we forced the economy to stop producing? I don't think the government has enough visibility into that supply chain to reopen it in a way that works without the rest of the economy.

As in a draft, the alternative is that one's community and entire way of life ends forcibly.

No one ever wants to be drafted, but sometimes an enemy larger than our personal preferences emerges.

We all live at this crossroads of time having, essentially, zero input into now. Now demands sacrifice. So it goes.

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