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> Or the purpose of an outdoor gathering so it will definitely kill churchgoers but spare the BLM protesters.
Also, not true. But even if it was, given your apparent position about COVID, you must admit that outdoor gatherings are less risky than indoors.
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You sound a lot like the “I want to socialize, fuck them grandpas” kind of crowd. Bet you were devastated when you couldn’t go to the office and had to hang out with the family (ugh) all day long.
There is more to life than the myopic focus on covid. Sorry you think otherwise. And shame on you for forcing me into your uncontrolled experiment I never consented to. Morals and ethics apparently don’t apply to covid. Neither does common sense.
That you also have the audacity of mentioning “morals and ethics”, when you said that “adults should sacrifice themselves”, is further proof of such a hypocritical stance.
We never should have mandated a single thing. It was perhaps the most evil thing humans have done. Especially what society did to children. What we did to children is absolutely shameful.
As for what you say about outdoor gatherings vs indoor gatherings, you're doing the same. Many of those BLM protests were not well-spaced light outdoor meetups, they involved thousands of people jam packed together in the streets. Aside from political affinity towards them or not, if you're criticizing large gatherings based on COVID fears as many of a certain political persuasion did, the BLM groupings had absolutely no reason to get a free pass.
> Also, easing up on measures that never fully clarified their cost-benefit analysis and caused all kinds of real harm while also often descending into the ideologically and theatrically absurd wasn't just about "avoiding slight inconveniences".
I'm waiting for anyone to prove that having to put on a mask was much more disruptive than COVID-19 or death. In HN, "social issues" come up a lot, like kids having to use masks and somehow suffering from "delays" in social learning, which doesn't seem to apply to me, as I have two young kids and they and their friends turned out to be just fine.
Funny though, kids seem to bitch less about masks and vaccines than adults.
That is only because they are too young to have the life experience required to call bullshit. And even if they could they have zero political power because they are kids.
And keep dreaming about how it caused no damage. We fucked over an entire generation of kids. It’s absolutely shameful what we did to kids. Adults sacrifice for their young. Not the other way around.
Kill them grandpas, I want to go to the bar. Am I right?
Too bad doing cost/benefit was impossible because lockdowns were never tested or proven before being used to the scale we used them. Yet we still did them despite oodles of sound, solid logic suggesting the costs would be astronomical.
That alone should have been a clue that we never should have done what we did. Especially given we already had pandemic plans… even ones created by “experts!!!” Funny they explicitly said to not do literally every single thing we did. But oh well… only covid mattered. Screw everything else.