Which is the right thing to do. The government should not be able to restrict people to living a healthy lifestyle, while keeping liquor stores open. Up is down and down is up. This is America. Not Russia.
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It definitely is but not everyone is ready to defy those orders. This is a gal who I am 100 percent sure certain wants to do the right thing for her customers and the community. I’m certain of this because I insisted that she continue charging my membership fee (as I’m sure many others did) and she flatly refused.
Will she get crushed under the wheel of “public health” in a county with only 2 deaths? It seems entirely possible.
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I sincerely hope she does not. I know several small gym owners here who only have a month, MAYBE two, before they run out of funds and will have to close. All boils down to “government knows best” and for anybody that tells you otherwise is purely delusional.
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Wow! Would it be unreasonable to set up an anonymous donation method where those willing to pay could contribute?
I’m sure there is a way it can be done, but I’m now reserving cash donations for dire circumstances in my community. They may be headed our way. Too soon to tell.
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Can? Debatable. Do? No, they really don’t.
What about the reverse?
Or force them to wear seatbelts or automobile manufacturers to build cars that meet certain safety and emissions standards.
While making DUI a crime (which gets back to “Adults can make educated decisions”). Hmmmmm, do we decriminalize drunk driving or reintroduce prohibition?
You really are negative and listen closely to your all-mighty government, don’t you?
My gym is a small hole-in-the-wall type place. Similar situation. They put all memberships on “hold”… Which is $11/month instead of $30/month. I emailed and told them they were welcome to charge me the full amount (it’s a small amount and I’m still working), and as of April they have been. I think a lot of folks would be fine continuing to pay full price for a few months if they knew their gym was in danger.
Edit, just saw you already did offer. Good on you. When my gym opens back up, I’m gonna buy them a trap/deadsquat bar, and let them know I’d be willing to throw money on an upgraded rack if they find a good deal on what I’m sure will be a hot second hand market once this is all over.
You: Defy the govt and it’s leaders! Armed protest of the elected govt at state houses is patriotic!
Also you (I’d guess): silently protesting racial injustice during the national anthem is unpatriotic!!
Yes, there is a whole lot of “systemic racism” in society today eyeroll. Rather than kneeling during the National Anthem for a publicity stunt, how about you contribute some of the millions of dollars you have to the less fortunate communities you claim to care about so much?
It’s cool. You keep using “patriotism” as an excuse for ignorance and selfish entitlement when you defy CDC guidelines to crush a few cases of budlight with your bros this weekend at the BBQ party. Odds are more than 1 brings a case of corona cause they think it’s funny, and then sends texts the next day about their hangover being corona virus.
I mean, what’s worse: missing out on a drunken debauchery filled kickoff to summer party with drunken jingoistic chants of USA, USA, USA!.. or risking a resurgence of the pandemic that threatens the stability of our country?
Party with the bros at the risk of pandemic resurgence? That’s a risk you’re willing to take, amiright!?
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Oh gosh, heaven help me that I’m being patriotic. Full of American pride. I should be ashamed of this country. Ashamed at all the opportunities it has to offer.
LOL @ “risk of pandemic resurgence”. Go crawl back into your shanty and continue riding the nuts of CNN, lemming.
Russia tried this dumb approach you’re advocating, summed up as “ignore the virus, keep everything open and man up”.
It didn’t work. They had to close everything one month later.
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Oh gosh, heaven help me that I’m being patriotic. Full of American pride. I should be ashamed of this country. Ashamed at all the opportunities it has to offer.[/quote]
Its a sad day when this kind of behavior gets misconstrued for patriotism.
On the thread topic, im taking advantage of the break from social drinking events and will be putting in a few big days in the mountains this coming weekend.
Gonna go for a couple big MTB rides, do a hike/scramble to scope out access to a BC zone i have in mind for next winter and also go for a ski this weekend. Access to Rainier is closed still (National Park), so itll take a little more effort to get to good snow, but me and my lady will be going for a ski this weekend by god! Of course, she will be wearing her “American Formal” attire:
Have a few buddies that are hosting a Brunch On The Boat event with folks on Saturday. They are going to pick up folks along Lake Washington and cruise over to a brunch restaurant to grab takeout and then eat it on the boat, probably in Lake Union. My guess is that they will have 8-10 people on the boat, so we are opting out. Cant wait till the pre and post work wake-surf sessions start back up.
Man, I’m old. I remember when liberals were champions of free love, free pot, and freedom of association. “My body, my choice”, and all that.
Apparently, that was all hippy bullshit.
As it relates to Covid-19, hospitals are empty, the curve is flattened. The entire purpose of flattening the curve was to avoid the spike to where hospitals were overwhelmed. The area under the spiked curve and the flat one (that is, the people infected) was the same. It was just a matter of timing and preparation. We’ve reached the point where we are as prepared as one can be for this sort of thing.
Accordingly, there is little medical purpose to continue the restrictions. Yes, people will get infected. The same number of people were eventually going to get infected if we had done nothing, in fact. That’s how novel infectious agents work. They spread until herd immunity is reached. It’s just whether you rip the band-aid off fast or slow.
But, it is your body and your choice. Feel free to cloister in your home. But it’s not your concern what other people do. It’s their body and their choice. Maybe if you cloister long enough, the other people will reach herd immunity for you.
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That’s exactly what sucked me into liberalism as a teenager in the 90’s, if you had to condense it down to a sentence.
That was my conclusion somewhere in the middle of Obama’s first term.
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I am a fan of freedom and have no problem with peaceful protest whether it’s at the statehouse or in a football stadium. Just pointing out the irony in do many peoples views.
I’m not cloistering in my house, did you not read my post? However I am choosing to continue basic social distancing, and not participating in drunken partying under the guise of “patriotism”. If hotspots flare up, the economy gets hit hard again instead of continuing it’s recovery.
Also, Im surely not a hippy if that’s what you were insinuating. Only hippy characteristic I have is a shared taste in drugs lol.
Great. Your body your choice. Now, leave people alone. It’s their body; their choice.
No insinuation made. It’s an allusion to the fact that the party of “Free Love”, when scratched, starts to bleed pretty darn fascist. (By which I mean dictionary-definition “fascist”, not whatever meaning-of-the-day it’s been given. Like dragging out hair salon owners at gunpoint, fascist. Or having a SWAT team ready at standby near the gym in NJ, fascist.)
Someone needs to start photo-shopping pictures of various overreaching Democrat Governor’s faces onto pictures of Cartman from Southpark with his billy club. “Respect my Authoritah!”
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The party of Easy Rider died sometime around my adolescence. The values that shaped this film are not to be found in the mainstream Democrat party, let alone in the coronavirus response I’ve observed.
I mean, would you get a load of that American Flag paint job? Where are those guys headed, anyway? Must be a Trump Rally or a capitol protest.
“Their body, their choice”. Were you of the same mindset in late march/early april? I doubt it. So really, we disagree about when “their body, their choice” should apply again. We disagree on the point where the danger level has decreased enough to exercise full freedoms again.
I think its ignorant and selfish to engage in needlessly risky behavior that has a likelihood of negatively affecting the country… just because you want to party, and/or express your angsty rebelliousness. If one or two hotspots pop up a week from now it means that governors could get spooked and keep restrictions in place longer. In order to remove restrictions, we need to avoid spikes and keep the infection rate flat. I want restrictions lifted ASAP, and the economy firing again so i can stop stressing about my job. Hundreds of millions are in the same situation.
Also, do you see the irony in telling me to stop telling people what to do?