Has anyone else's ignore list grown...

[kelleyga36]

I didn't have a ignore list before this.

 

[Crubear]

Good son too. Proud of both of them

 

[UptaCamp]

Well put, but you can bet that even if they do kill someone that's important to them, they won't own it. They'll figure out a way to blame it on something else.

To be fair, this type of speech is similar to the left's argument that guns kill people; the virus is what is killing people, not the people carrying it. Albeit, I get what you are conveying that becoming a vector for the illness should be something people take responsibility for.

 

[Inatree]

in a world of participation trophies, everyone is a hero lol

i thought everyone was threatened by it, which is why we had a shutdown no? or maybe everyone is threatened by it? or half the people never get symptoms? i cant remember what the news told me to think about it

Are you just adding punctuation to my statement ? Well done.
There are vulnerable people that are seriously threatened by this virus.
SOME people will assume responsibility to protect these people and TEMPORARILY suspend their wants and needs.
Then there are the ENTITLED. (look up the definition)
Their wants and needs supersede every one else's . In fact their wants and needs generally come at the expense
of others.

 

[above_all]

uhhhh, so far this "panic" is no where justified by any stretch

in my opinion of course. havent had fun with this healthy dose of socialism and after this is over im going to have even more distrust of authorities, the media, and people in large numbers evidently because this has proven most americans to be scared little women demanding asinine safety precautions from others to appease their anxiety

I disagree. It's easy to look in the rear view mirror and pass judgement. However, medical and government leaders were working with incomplete and dynamic data.
1. From China, who lied.
2. From Europe, where many countries were (and continue to be) hammered.
3. From computer modeling based on 1 and 2.

It's was a no-win scenario. Hands off, blamed for not doing enough. Too much intervention, blamed for totalitarian control. I believe that's why responsibility for response was pushed down to state level in large part.

That being said, I believe we have enough data from a US impact standpoint to begin an incremental rolling back of shelter in place and quarantine controls. Life will return to normal. The economy will recover. Your 401k will recover.

It wasn't a massive government conspiracy.

 

[drewga11]

Usually don't feel its worth the effort to put anyone on ignore list here, but I did put one new guy on ignore because he started "following" me on here after I replied to something he posted.

 

[Bear44]

To be fair, this type of speech is similar to the left's argument that guns kill people; the virus is what is killing people, not the people carrying it. Albeit, I get what you are conveying that becoming a vector for the illness should be something people take responsibility for.

It's not the same at all. If a person becomes a carrier of the virus through carelessness, it's not like they carry a weapon into a room. It's like they pull it out and start randomly shooting at everyone else in the room... and all the people those people are close to. And so on and so on and so on...

 

[Bear44]

I disagree. It's easy to look in the rear view mirror and pass judgement. However, medical and government leaders were working with incomplete and dynamic data.
1. From China, who lied.
2. From Europe, where many countries were (and continue to be) hammered.
3. From computer modeling based on 1 and 2.

It's was a no-win scenario. Hands off, blamed for not doing enough. Too much intervention, blamed for totalitarian control. I believe that's why responsibility for response was pushed down to state level in large part.

That being said, I believe we have enough data from a US impact standpoint to begin an incremental rolling back of shelter in place and quarantine controls. Life will return to normal. The economy will recover. Your 401k will recover.

It wasn't a massive government conspiracy.

I agree with everything you say here, but the fact remains that we don't know for sure what would have happened without the quarantines and social distancing recommendations. One thing we can be sure of is that things would have gotten a lot worse than they did and we're not out of the woods yet. They are saying that one of the reasons the numbers aren't as bad as first expected is because people were following the recommendations being put out voluntarily long before it became regulation. Well, most people, anyway. The rest are the ones the regulation had to be made for.

Even so, disagreement with policy is not what my ignore list is about. It's about folks showing callous disregard for others because they think the "others" do not include themselves.

 

[UptaCamp]

It's not the same at all. If a person becomes a carrier of the virus through carelessness, it's not like they carry a weapon into a room. It's like they pull it out and start randomly shooting and everyone else in the room... and all the people those people are close to. And so on and so on and so on...

The rhetoric you are using lends to the idea that a person as a vector is knowingly and purposefully spreading the virus, which is untrue.

 

[41mag]

I usually reserve my ignore list for people that i see intentionally screw someone over ..... like dropping a deal because you got a better offer.....Or just not show up and not have a valid excuse/lie .....things like that.
Albeit i have put a couple of folks on ignore over religious debates before. There are some things i just cannot stand to read. Those that would troll another person using religion are just blasphemous to me.
I have not put anyone on ignore since this virus has started.... i dont think.