(03-20-2020, 09:19 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Face it. You are blinded by your ideology. The precautions are necessary. The intensity is necessary to break through to people like you.
I am not particularly emotional, but I am taking what precautions I can.
Why try to throw that word at me simply because you feel it is being used against you? In the real world, that's called passive aggression. I am not one of the kids partying on the beach you seem to want to spank dude. I'm a real human being telling others what I am seeing and experiencing MYSELF instead of copying and pasting what I am seeing and hearing on a frantic and emotion-based news.
You say "the precautions are necessary". You know nothing personally about the virus, you are just in front of the TV or screen and "reporting" what you see others telling you. I'm not doing that.
I told someone today, if this was as serious as we are being led to believe (and I am NOT talking about the idea there is a virus and ppl are dying, many more getting sick than dying) there would be proper mandates to line ppl up 6ft apart while they wait outside a grocery store.
THERE ISN'T.
Think about that. A state as large as California being told
do not go to work
do not shop
do not operate your small business
do not go in public in large groups
Yet, the lines for Costco are around the store, people are right next to each other and jabbering. If one person in that line has the virus, and we can all die from it, EVERYONE IN THAT LINE HAS IT and has taken it back with them to whether they came from.
A hammer is being applied to swat flies. Isn't it obvious?
What I just described (the idea the mandate is not specific enough to contain ANYTHING) is just one SMALL example.
We are being shown images of NYC Times Square is empty (unheard of) and reveling in the idea everyone has ALREADY been killed and these places are abandoned ghosts of what we know to be there. It is an emotional DRAMA and the news loves it. The news loves to have school shootings and Branch Davidian standoffs and towers collapsing.
Media loves the camera. Mr Butler, you seem to love it as much.
I will add things I just noticed today:
no wiping of grocery carts
no wiping of the pin pad at checkout
no wiping of ANYTHING
And I am not saying this is a BAR or RESTAURANT. This is an "essential operation that cannot shut" during this Crisis. Why is the mandate not covering that? How much easier is it to say
WIPE ALL PIN PADS
as opposed to
DON'T GO TO WORK
It's way more freaking simple. Yet, how many more ppl will get infected by passing through the essential checkout line pressing the same green ENTER button. And let's just assume everyone that comes through has a PIN similar enough to touch at least one number the same as the person before them.
It's not right. We are all passing the virus along as much as before. Nothing has changed. We were all gonna die before the lockdown happened, now just a few less will die. Does that make sense to you, Rhett?
Really, the only thing that has changed is the fear level AND that yes ppl are not transmitting it AS MUCH as before. But there has been no authentic reality put in place for "essentials".
Fine, ppl aren't in the mall. Malls are huge indoor places where ppl roam. They touch things like clothing and countertops. I only keep thinking of ALL the people going through checkout lines infecting the person that comes after them. Does that make sense to you? How easy would it be for Govs to say to essentials "everyone uses a card, wipe the pads after every use". Forget about cash. The cashier then has it and the money has it and everyone that touches the change has it.
No, we cannot shut the grocery store, but please apply some sense to your argument when you next reply.
You also say you are using precaution, how do you feel about what I just described? Are you wiping the pin pad before using it? What about the plastic divider between your food and the other person? What about the plastic bag the bagger filled up your goods into? The cart? Fine if you do, but I saw none of that today at the store. If this is all so deadly, why aren't those things in place?
Instead, we have a general lockdown, bailouts coming, dread over unemployment and campfire news hours with sober tone and images of a world emptied.
