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Oh, and while I'm here and feeling irritable: to everyone who has come down on the side of, "Vulnerable people should just self-isolate so the rest of us can go on with our lives," let me tell you what message that sends.
Setting aside that not everyone who is vulnerable knows it; setting aside that this virus has done some nasty things to young and healthy people -- it is more or less impossible for those of us who are vulnerable to completely cut off all contact with society.
We have families. We have basic needs (like eating). Few if any of us are able or prepared to take our families and go completely off grid in an isolated bunker in Alaska. We WILL and DO have to have contact with people with whom we do not live -- same for our family members.
So since what you're telling us to do is objectively impossible at the level required for it to be effective, here's what you're really telling us: "Your life is not worth protecting. Go away or hurry up and die; either way, I don't care. Just get out of my way."
Think about that the next time you want to shoot your mouth off; think about how the message that you're sending is that people like me are expendable. Think about how you're now advocating a variation of "Might makes right."
It may be that you don't care; that's on you. But in case you do, just remember -- every time you spout garbage like that, you are advocating for my children to be without a mother either for months (optimistically speaking) or permanently. And that makes me grumpy.
I understand that a lot of this sort of sentiment at the beginning of the pandemic was a sort of stages-of-grief bargaining; I didn't like seeing it, but I understand. But we're now at the end of July, and people are STILL promulgating this attitude.
Nobody wanted this pandemic, but I promise you we "vulnerables" like it even less than you do -- on top of the inconveniences and the practical worries and fears, we also get to be afraid of dying alone, surrounded by unrecognizable strangers, drowning in our own fluids.
So, again, maybe try to think and behave like you're a civilized person, instead of adding yourself to the forces trying to hurry us along to that particular end.
