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You're incredibly selfishly increasing the risk to everyone else around you, but I get it. I was in the same camp just a few days ago.

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One can imagine certain futures where it's actually a good thing for low-risk populations quickly develop an immunity, styming the spread later on.

The low risk populations are actively spreading it and are passing it on to high risk populations bin that case. We'd rather have the disease spread slowly and move some of those infections from now to later so our health system doesn't get overwhelmed, and we'd rather delay as long as possible to get a vaccine developed

Well, lock yourself inside for the next 12 months then.

Hygiene, social distancing, targeted quarantine, etc. There is a spectrum. It's not binary: normies vs hermit prepped.

Having had a compromised immune system I don't wish it on anyone. But hey maybe if more people were casual about these things then they too can learn the hard way.

We might have to if Italy and China are any indication.

Nope - I wash my hands. You want me to self-quarantine already? I'm not going to be afraid of 0.00001% of my state being infected.

Ah, yes, washing your hands. The completely infallible way to prevent the spread of a disease.

I don't want you to be afraid - I want you to minimize the risk that you get coronavirus and become another infection vector, endangering the at-risk populations around you.

I want you to do that because it is the socially responsible thing to do, and it will decrease the chance of someone who is far more at risk of serious complications from the disease catching it.

I took the subway today, and it was about 1/4 full for the time. But everyone there wasn't pulling their hair out in abject terror. Last night my wife and I ate dinner at a Thai restaurant, and it was pretty full. I'm just going with the huge portion of society that doesn't choose to be afraid.

That's good that you're patronizing Asian businesses, a lot of them have been hit hard by people avoiding them due to virus fears.

Every disease has its super spreaders, this poster is just a good example of why we should cancel everything and be careful, since there is at least one person out there with no understanding of risk and disease epidemiology. There are likely to be more, and the less chances we give them to put us and vulnerable populations in harm's way, the better. If we knew everyone would react appropriately we wouldn't need drastic action, but this is a perfect example of why we need to act fast.

You do realize that every confirmed case (and fatality) is a lagging indicator, right? Further delayed by the fact that testing is still basically nonexistent.

No other option but to lock yourself in your house with all these carriers everywhere!

Can you please stop feeding this flamewar? It's fine that you've stated your view, but to keep provoking others like this amounts to trolling. Ironic in a thread about contagion.

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