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Alternate explanation: you work from home (thus aren't forced out of the house) and you are entertained enough by HN and Reddit and Netflix and whatever you do to have no real desire to leave, and since you have any concern about the virus, you confuse your indoor shut-in lifestyle (which most of us have) as some positive premeditated rational character trait that everyone else lacks.

I'd wager that explains almost all of the self-congratulating I see online.

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Hey, please don't cross into personal attack when commenting here. It only makes things worse.

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Or I'd really like to leave the house, go to concerts again, go to restaurants, work at my desk at the office where I can better keep life and work separate and have a great view of the mountains.

But I also know several fairly young people that have died with no comorbidities (as young as 38), and several others that have survived but are in a mental fog months later, and know the importance of staying in.

You can't even go outside?

I'm not the person to whom you replied but my answer is: Sure, and I do, quite a lot, but it's not the same. I've deleted 12 different things from my calendar that my family was going to do between early March and now. A trip to see friends in another country, three baseball games (just the ones we'd bought in advance), two different conventions, and more.

All ruined because of this stupid virus.

None are replaced by a brisk walk outdoors.

He says he has done " no-contact outside activities" all along.

That would probably describe me if I lived alone, but I have five kids and not being able to leave the house to even go to the local park has been terrible. But we do it anyway. It did force us to subscribe to Disney+ (the first time we have ever used a subscription or streaming service) just to get a bit of peace and sanity for part of the day.

Your comment comes across as overly hostile. Maybe it would be different if this was an in-person conversation, but over the Internet, hostility is the only tone I can assign to your calling the sacrifices the OP has made "self-congratulating".

Fair enough. Maybe it reads closer to my intention if you replace the "you"s with "we"s. I'm a shut-in HNer patting myself on the back for keeping the world safe without lifting a finger, I just had thought I met a fellow crusader.

i am neither that insular nor that elitist.

Sorry to disappoint you.

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