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Chilling at home is worse strangling to death on your own blood? My friend you may need to do some work on your home life.

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Damaging the economy to the tune of 2 trillion in bailouts, the cost of the war in Iraq, just to have the exact same number of deaths delayed by 4 months is inexcusable.

And you should be ashamed of your self-righteous and dishonest argument style.

Why do you struggle with staying home so much? What exactly are you missing? You can socialise at home, and maintain distance easily. You can still do outdoor activities. It's basically concerts, sporting events, restaurants and bars? Are these really that important to you? Americans live on average in the largest homes in the world, so there should be no real problem with this.

These things are NOT the entire economy, and large parts of the economy will continue with people avoiding these types of enviornments.

The delay in deaths is due to the impotent response by many elected leaders, and the propaganda they've used to support their asinine decisions.

The cost is due to officials using a crisis to benefit themselves. Only people should be bailed out. Let the free market take care of companies that have leveraged themselves off the cliff.

Except it's not the same number of deaths? And as another poster noted, immunity might be shortly conferred. In which case when will we learn that managing this virus is a good idea? The third wave? Fourth? Maybe the fifth? And it's ironic that you chastise the poster for his self-righteous argumentative style when your post history indicates you seem to do the same.

2 trillion dolllars is worth far less than even a single human life

Your insurance company disagrees steadfastly.

No doubt they do. But my insurance company also doesn’t want _everyone_ to die. That’d be bad for business. As would hundreds of thousands or millions of claims due to COVID. Look at all the insurance companies that are waiving costs for testing. It’s cheaper for them to eat that cost and help slow the spread via more accessible testing than to deal with the work of millions of hospitalization claims and of course paying out for even a fraction of those.

It sounds so noble to say this. Unfortunately there is also a time to pay that 2 trillion dollars. And then what if you find out you just don’t have it?

Just chill at home while food and money magically appear on the doorstep

Quarantine is where you restrict the movement of sick people.

Tyranny is where you restrict the movement of healthy ones.

No. Quarantine is where you restrict the movement of people who may be carriers for infectious diseases. Because spreading infectious diseases makes healthy people sick. You do realize that healthy people can get sick..right? Like...you know that some people who are sick were healthy prior to that? You realize that closing a door to a room doesn’t make the room disappear..right?

> Quarantine is where you restrict the movement of people who may be carriers for infectious diseases.

Except they didn't really restrict those kinds of people completely, right? All those exceptions to the rules of people who didn't have to quarantine, irregardless of whether they may be a carrier.

Quarantine has always been a precautionary measure, applied to both sick and healthy people. The point is that you don't know who falls into which category.

The origin of the word is quarantena, Venetian for "40 days", the period of time a ship suspected of carrying disease had to wait outside the harbor.

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