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Originally Posted by ToothSayer
When he calls you a "pussy", he's actually making the considered and wise philosophical argument that "mostly staying inside" for 18 months - a full 15% of your best years remaining at 35 - is a crazy thing to do when stacked up against a less 1 in 100 chance of noticable lung damage.
Let me put it this way. Imagine that covid never went away and you had a 1 in 100 chance every year of noticable lung damage (this is a meaningful possibility if it mutates like the cold does). Would you stay inside for the rest of your natural life?
He called people pussies because he's arrogant.
There are people his age and health profile who have died running their mouth in the same way.
I mean, it's not like he's wrong to an extent, but the abrasiveness...the dismissiveness...
For all he knows, he could contract it tomorrow and be dead in 3 weeks. And he can lend a cocky smirk while reading this, not realizing that the simple possibility that his local hospital could be overflowing and unable to accept him as a patient is what could kill him, not his apparently superb health profile
I wish no such thing on ANYONE. I understand for most it's a nothingburger. He should understand that people EXACTLY like him are dead. He is not bulletproof, and people elsewhere really are going through the wringer, either with C19 itself or friend/fam or as medical personnel
Go up to them and call them pussies for politely asking us to distance, mask up indoors, and wash our hands...Like, c'mon man, not necessary. We can emphasize being rational while also not being condescending douchebags, or so cocky the very mentality actually kills