i'm all for using common sense over blind rule-following, but I've been having a hard time relating to much of the language i see on here comparing using masks and exercising caution to "huddling in fear" or being "a life not worth preserving"; isn't this a bit too dramatic?
not to make light of people who's lives have legitimately either been taken away or ruined by this pandemic, but for very many of us, its just been a sort of minor inconvenience, maybe with some extra psychological strain; nowhere near as torturous as many of these tweets suggest
really, what is so bad about wearing masks a bit more often than you'd like to, or trying to protect the vulnerable? i get that lockdowns have constituted a transfer of wealth across classes, & do need to be balanced against liberty, but should we not try and protect the elderly?
i see many viewpoints around here denouncing any & all lockdowns on account of their violation of abstract principles, and I do agree, to a certain point; but many of these calls seem much more extreme than I consider warranted. are our model of civics really that different?
i know our whole thing here is being galaxy brain institutional contrarians but doesn't seem like the best idea, resorting to binary thinking due to frustration and outrage; lets be honest, we are by no means immune to this
"never again" "not worth living" thats a bit rich innit
please note that none of this is an endorsement of any particular governing body's actions over this past year, not support for a specific set of policies going forward; just trying to understand where this bombastic rhetoric is coming from.
really, who here is living in fear?