You believe that ALL people need to be protected from Covid.
Now that I consider this, I have to agree with your implied comment that some do not believe all people should be protected from Covid. For instance, those who supported the misguided belief of achieving herd immunity without a vaccine.
See the issue that I have is that once we get the gov't involved with picking which businesses are essential, or which leisure activities are safe, etc, it's gets awfully complicated.
Yes, it’s complicated. But the role of our elected leadership is to make decisions such as these in order to protect the community. That is their job. Some are obviously doing better than others, while some are being stymied by the courts (allowing religious services while not allowing other types of meetings is objectively just crazy).
And it puts some people are risk while others are protected. Getting Grub Hub or groceries delivered has always seemed a bit elitist to me.
If acting in this manner some consider elitist saves lives, call me an elitist. It’s obviously more expensive, yet it’s a small price to pay for contributing to lowering the spread (and for what it’s worth, I’ve discovered that the time I save by not shopping for myself is worth the minor increase I pay for the service). And then there are the companies setup for just delivery and don’t have a retail presence, such as Imperfect Foods, which I’ve found to actually be less overall than going to the market. How about Amazon? Walmart? Costco? And the many, many thousands of small businesses that only exist online and deliver 100% of their products?
I wonder if those who consider online shoppers to be elitists would reconsider if they knew some of the people shopping in this manner are at high risk for covid and are simply following the best advice by not only reducing the number of people congregating in stores but also lowering the risk of a poor outcome for themselves.
The manner in which we are classifying and criticizing others is really quite sad. It certainly seems some people want nothing more but to create divisions, promote unsupported failed theories (um...Sweden, anyone?), and blame our scientists for not knowing exactly what to do before anyone knew for certain how the virus spread and who was at risk and that their advice changes, as it should, with new evidence. Yet these same people who believe they have all the answers appear intelligent, so why is it so difficult for them to comprehend that scientists give advice based on the facts they know, and as the facts change with more insight so do their recommendations. But no, some people blame scientists for changing their recommendations over time, as if they should have known better before they had the info. These duplicitous comments detract from the goal of keeping as many people safe from Covid as possible, and in some cases work to promote community infection.
There’s also this recurring theme in these threads of the emotional toll taken on our children by not having schools open. Yet even now, when some experts promote openings of schools in certain areas and for certain ages (note none of the experts have said all schools should be open everywhere), the recent recommendation I have read states very clearly that young children should be in school but adolescents and teenagers should not since they spread Covid just as rapidly as adults. These nuances get lost in the posts, and in many cases simply not mentioned, and we are presented with statements such as Fauci thinks schools should be open (when actually he never said anything so simple, and which thinking so is taking his comments out of context). It seems that even in a pandemic with over a quarter of a million Americans dead, we cannot be honest about the dangers and the recommendations of the experts and instead criticize anything that doesn’t fit within our individual view of the world.
We can only do the best we can with the information we have, and when we cannot agree on what information is accurate or tear apart the scientists and experts working to save our lives, we are being counterproductive.
The facts are plain to see for all. We are currently at a point with increasing infections almost everywhere in America. Daily infection rate in Los Angeles alone has more than doubled in recent weeks. Hospitals are being overloaded with too few medical staff. The vaccines which will soon be available will help, but based on the latest information it will be many months before we have sufficient quantities to know when this might...just might...end. Avoid crowds, stay home as much as possible, wash your hands, wear masks, and be safe...and healthy.
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