What this fact proves or disproves, I do not know.
My sense of personal freedom extends far beyond the standard childishness of middle-aged Jordan Petersen-admiring men (âThe government is not going to tell me what to do!â). My sense of personal freedom involves being able to think for myself and not being stupid. But even here I am not entirely free, because I owe this freedom to genetic luck and my parents.
Your âquestionâ is premised on the notion that Covid-19 and standard flu pose an equal threat to the ability of societies to behave normally in social and economic terms. This equivalence is so nonsensical that your âquestionâ, needless to add, is still more nonsensical.
You are basically another example of right wing absolutist childishness: âWe should treat everything the same way because something something â the lefties!â The OIUTF âlogicâ is that Illness A, which causes some trouble, should be treated the same as Illness B, which causes far more trouble, because both of them are illnesses. Here is how the ideologically blinkered, even if not innately stupid (although many OIUTFers certainly are), behave like stupid people.
The experience of this pandemic will naturally alter how many issues are viewed. Crisis, among its many other facets, is a focusing device. A terrible irony of The Troubles was that surgery for blast victims and gunshot victims got accelerated by decades, because of the volume of people who required such treatment.
This pandemic, as a crisis, will inexorably affect how flu is seen and treated. Might vulnerable people now decide, unprompted by legal requirement, to wear masks and hand sanitize in certain contexts between October and March? Quite possibly, given what has been observed during this pandemic. This behaviour would be perfectly rational. Should the government legally require people, every winter, to do so? I doubt it, given that standard flu does not present remotely as big a threat, across all fronts, as Covid-19. Any such move would be disproportionate. But I think the government should encourage people â by an advertising campaign, say â to avoid getting flu, which would ultimately save taxpayersâ money. And the OIUTF crew, mostly wing nuts of the right sort, could hardly object to measures that sought to achieve this aim, could they?
Iâm not upset. I just canât fathom how someone can write the reams of shite you do and get satisfaction from it. Whatâs harder to comprehend is that you think you are good at it. Youâre dull, boring and deluded. Tis you thatâs to be pitied. Bless.
The genuine mystery is your masochism, the masochism of an anonymous non entity on a discussion board. No one remembers anything you say for ten seconds. And yet you hang on my every word.
Your biggest mistake: intelligence is not catching.
âanother swigâ⌠Ah, how original. It greatly amuses me that people stoop so low in so unoriginal a fashion.
Actually, you should try journalism. You would make a good hack, being stupid, predictable, venial, right wing and jealous of intelligence.
Try it sometime. Besides, I doubt you are at much in âthe real worldâ, given your patent dimness. But, hey, malleable dimness can be an advantage in certain contexts. All is not lost.
I was going to write another longish post but there is no point. We look at the world completely differently. You see everything as a conspiracy (âadvertising budgetâ). Fair enough but I do not. And your second paragraph has no logic.
Besides, you clearly do not believe in âsocietyâ as a concept and therefore you have no grounds on which to use the term âdiscriminationâ.
I wish you and yours all the best over the next while.
Youâre right, your post deserved a better reply but I hadnât the time or the attention span neededâŚI know the second paragraph made no sense, that was sort of the pointâŚ