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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
Individual risk assessment would work if individuals were fully aware of the risk.
They are not.
They have proven, time and time again, that they will not wear masks and do not fully believe in the veracity of studies and tests. They believe the government is feeding them lies, and that liars are feeding them truth. They believe what they want to believe, and they cannot adequately assess something they don't consider a risk at all.
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So your logic here is that people are too stupid/choose not to to understand, so lock everyone down for it? That definitely makes sense.. Would you like to remove everything that causes harm to other people that's actually preventable as well? Say cars for example, since there's thousands of preventable deaths from DUI/distracted/reckless driving? If no one has cars, those deaths can't happen anymore, right? And if you're trying to scale it in numbers, the concept doesn't change. And even then, again, the JHU study I posted about the Covid numbers to total US deaths.
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What happens when an underinsured COVID-denier ends up with a million-dollar hospital bill? Who foots the cost of their stupidity?
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Taxpayers, like how that already happens here in CA for undocumented immigrants? I don't know about the rest of the country, but uhh, that's already happening, so no large change there.
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Who pays the salary of someone who decided they're not okay to go out?
It's whose right to do what and when?
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Government can help step in with that, along with employers. Set pay at current disability rates (I believe in CA it's 65% of your pay). That should be more than unemployment with the 300$ federal benefit that will expire as well. Then that would be much more than the unemployment alone. Like if you're declaring your risk assessment to your employer? Just like how you can claim long term leave of absence. That will be harder for "job" types of jobs than "career with benefits" jobs, but that would be an assessment with employers/employees and state laws (which are already in place for leave related to covid).
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Ignorance cannot be fought with freedom. There's a friggin' bouncer at the door of a popular convenience store on Pala Reservation because too many people refused to wear masks.
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This is true. But not everyone agrees with your mindset of "lock everyone down because of the stupidity of others making stupid choices".
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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
Other countries are able to control the spread because their populace isn't chock full o' nuts.
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Why did the EU recently have another wave?
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