HouseDivided wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 6:41 pm
Grandma wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 6:13 pm
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 5:07 pm
I am not saying you're wrong, because you're not. The goal posts moved...but in my county of IL the curve is definitely still on the up slope.
If you take NYC out of the numbers, many places are still increasing.
Some people don't want to risk it. And I agree with you that if that's the case then they should stay home until they feel safe. None of us need a politician to tell us what to do or make choices for us. I dont care if restaurants open, I won't be going inside anyway. But if others want to then that should be their choice.
I mostly only shared that for the info about that its relatively safe to go to grocery stores and do anything outside, and conversely that its relatively risky to go to restaurants in areas with lots of cases becuase of airflow issues.
I sympathize with both sides...the only people I don't agree with are the ones saying its a "hoax".
You don't need to kiss his ass. He is wrong - about some things.
He said, "We all complied".
* Really? "We" "ALL" "Complied"? No.
"The curve was flattened".
* Really? EVERYWHERE? Or some places? "was" as in past tense, current tense, or future tense?
"Furthermore, if you question the narrative or refuse to play along, you are "deluded," "selfish," "racist," "ignorant," and "dangerous".
* Without question SOME people are a few if not all of those things if they don't/didn't "play along".
"weak people who choose to live in fear".
* Sure seems like he expressed HIS (justifiable) living in fear by saying - "I refuse to stand idly by while my economic future is flushed down the toilet".
Remember Illini, were are dealing with a "psych" "professor" who finds fault ("weak") in others who are living in fear - while expressing he's living in fear.
I'll say it again and again and again and again. I'm all for re-opening - as long as "we" do it smartly.
Problem is we live in a country full of dumbfucks who have no interest in doing things "smartly".
You’re right. I do live in fear of losing my career and having to be a greeter at Wal-Mart while I pay off the student loans that I had to take out while I was spending six years earning a PhD while working two jobs and raising a family. I do live in fear of having scratched and clawed my way out of a living hell to just start to glimpse what happiness might look like only to have it snatched away by a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians.
You’ll have to excuse me if I find the suggestion that I be happy and content living out my days working at Arby’s or Whole Foods - or worse yet, sitting at home collecting a poverty-level universal basic income check - because a bunch of people needed to overblow an illness to make themselves feel better because their candidate didn’t win the 2016 election and they’re afraid he going to get four more years not just ridiculous but offensive.
I’m to the point where, anyone who has the temerity to say that me losing the career I spent my whole life working toward is a reasonable sacrifice so that some 80 year-olds with heart disease and emphysema can live another six months, is going to flat out get punched in the mouth.
If you want to lock yourselves in your houses, great. Lock away. But don’t screw me and the rest of us who want to be happy and earn an honest living along the way. Don’t screw my 16 year-old out of his high school basketball season. Don’t screw my students out of a normal college experience. Don’t try to shame the rest of us into being a bunch of socialist sheep.
What has happened in the last two months is disgraceful and inexcusable; what happens in the next four to six weeks will determine whether or not there is life to go back to. If this bored were a reliable sampling of the American people, I would have no hope. Thankfully, I see and hear people all around me every day who are calling b.s. and refusing to be pushed around anymore.
As someone else suggested, if you haven't already - you should probably seek help.
I'm saying that in a compassionate manner. As someone who has asked for and received his own help. Many times. For many issues.
Let's examine your post and I will respond respectfully.
As I said, your "fear" is justifiable. That being said, I feel it's 100% wrong of you to say to other's their fear is not justifiable when they may have as legitimate of a reason to be fearful of the things they fear as you have the legitimate reason to be in fear of the thing/s you are fearful of.
I would hope you as a "psych" guy could and would comprehend that and be maybe just the slightest bit compassionate in that regard.
Imagine that HD, now you are feeling the fear others have felt but for different reasons. The fear of losing their job/s. Sucks. I've been there. I'm not going to compare our "living hells" because everyone's are different. I'm honestly happy for you for moving on and finding happiness but come on man, you are a "psych" guy. You must realize that life is full of peaks and valleys. You want to blame "a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians" for your plight right now. Fair enough. I place blame on them too. I also blame the virus - and like to believe that life and death trumps all. The moment you were born in to this world you were given life. The last thing you will experience in this world is death. That's all we are promised. There will be good and there will be bad in our lives. I find it interesting that we are wired as humans to blame others when things go bad in our lives more than we praise others when good things happen in our lives. That's enough of my philosophical jargon for now.
You said, "because a bunch of people needed to overblow an illness to make themselves feel better because their candidate didn’t win the 2016 election and they’re afraid he going to get four more years not just ridiculous but offensive".
* Forgive me for not fully understanding what you are saying. I'm assuming you are under the impression people feel the virus is real, and respect it, and perhaps even fear it, because Hillary Clinton didn't win the presidential election in 2016. Yeah, I agree. That's pretty ridiculous and offensive - to make that assumption and accusation.
You said, "I’m to the point where, anyone who has the temerity to say that me losing the career I spent my whole life working toward is a reasonable sacrifice so that some 80 year-olds with heart disease and emphysema can live another six months, is going to flat out get punched in the mouth.
* I'm not going to speak for others here. I'm speaking for myself and 70+ year olds who are fairly healthy and productive members of society.
Of course losing your career is not a "reasonable sacrifice". Thing is, you very well may NOT lose your career but if unfortunately you do, you still have an opportunity to find/have a different "career".
I really hope you realize this isn't as simple of a choice between deciding if you keep your career or if "some 80 year-olds with heart disease and emphysema can live another six months".
As far as your punching someone in the mouth, I suggest you don't do it. You very well may lose your career that you supposedly cherish so much. That's one of the reasons why I feel you should seek help. If you are this angry to the point where you are telling others you are going to resort to physical violence because of your fear of losing your career - if nothing else, you are "troubled".
You said, "If you want to lock yourselves in your houses, great. Lock away. But don’t screw me and the rest of us who want to be happy and earn an honest living along the way. Don’t screw my 16 year-old out of his high school basketball season. Don’t screw my students out of a normal college experience. Don’t try to shame the rest of us into being a bunch of socialist sheep".
* I don't know of anyone who has locked themself in their house. I do know people who have chosen to be careful and only shop when necessary.
I think you are focusing your anger on the wrong people here. I think the purpose of the initial "stay at home order/s" were to prevent you from getting sick so that you would be able to be happy and earn an honest living in the not too distant future. For an unfortunate reason your 16 year old is learning life isn't always fair. Guess what, I know a woman who's 16 year old daughter lost her grandfather to COVID-19. He was an active man who golfed almost daily and loved life. He paid his "debt" to society and was enjoying his "senior" years. I assure you she would have happily given up basketball for a season if it meant her grandfather didn't die. I assume somewhere along the line in the last 16 years you have taken your 16 year old somewhere to show him/her how fortunate he is to live the life he does. For one basketball season shit happened to him. I sincerely feel bad. I have family members who have missed out on a lot of things such as their college graduations. Thankfully life does and will go on for them - and your son. For my friends father, it will not.
You said, "What has happened in the last two months is disgraceful and inexcusable; what happens in the next four to six weeks will determine whether or not there is life to go back to. If this bored were a reliable sampling of the American people, I would have no hope. Thankfully, I see and hear people all around me every day who are calling b.s. and refusing to be pushed around anymore.
* I agree 100% that it's been "disgraceful and inexcusable" that some people haven't given a fuck and didn't take the virus seriously and because of it, we have 80,000+ dead Americans who had many family members, friends, and co-workers who have been directly affected by their DEATH. Is your attitude "fuck 'em" "who cares" - I haven't been able to teach?
Honest question/s. Do you truly believe that there are people on this board who are enjoying this? Who hope it continues indefinitely? Who are rooting against people such as yourself who may lose their "careers"?
I'm going to add one thing. I don't know if this was your intention or not but it seems you were/are belittling those who are greeters at Walmart, or work at Arby's and Whole Foods.
Are they lesser people than you are? I ask because those people serve a purpose in society and actually - they are more important to me and others than you and your "career" are.
Not trying to be disrespectful by saying that. I'm trying to give you a bit of perspective on everything else you have said - in terms of you losing your "career".