Prior to Covid-19 people with the flu, TB, HIV, meningitis, hepatitis etc run around with the ability to spread it to those they interact with yet their movement is not restricted by the government. I see this in the same way but you’re in the medical field so you may see it differently.Rob72 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:22 pm As a healthcare worker, working directly on COVID, and a Type 1 diabetic x 47 years, I am not terribly interested in the "rights" of people to congregate and wank their jaws.
If you are symptomatic, you have probably been shedding virus for several days before you knew anything was going on.
Hoarding has caused critical shortages of basic personal protective equipment for front-line healthcare providers.
I do not live in fear, but I have worked with infectious diseases, of all sorts, for about 7 of my 27 years in healthcare.
I can pretty well guarantee that at some point, someone will have done, "whatever we wanted to do," which will spread infection to someone like me.
At some point, after seeing other, "someones like me," infected, someone like me will do violence. That is likely to be the start of the gun-grabbing-National-Guard-in-the-streets.
My question is: is having your recreation worth the life and/or well being of your older neighbor, people at church, your parents?
John Adams who observed, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Last year I was in my cardiologist waiting room and could hear the guy in the next room coughing away. I hear him tell the doc he has TB and it made me think about what we are exposed to.
I still think we are overacting to this but I wouldn’t knowingly go around spreading anything contagious either? But how far do we go? Should everyone with anything that can be spread easily to others be quarantined from here on out? From now on shall we quarantine everyone with the flu since 40-60k die each year from that? Shouldn’t we always consider others and ensure we aren’t exposing anyone in any way?
I don’t think that’s practical. People are responsible for their own well being and like it or not we take risks every day in our lives. I’m not knowingly going to expose people but I’ve also got to live my life in this world too and I’m not big on government mandating when and where I can go just to “protect” everyone else. I’ll do that myself.