The thing about social distancing "hawks" vs "doves" is the hawks are just being *consistent* The virus is a physical thing, it follows physical rules, if you're within six feet of another person you're at risk of inhaling microscopic particles of spit they exhale, that's it
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The "doves" don't seem to understand or accept this, they treat it like a game or a negotiation, they're always looking for 'loopholes" like this is a social rule based on aesthetics or morals, like the Pope can give you a dispensation
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The rules don't change if your reason for wanting to risk exposure is virtuous rather than selfish Going to church isn't different than going to a bar Having a wholesome cookout in the park isn't different than a sketchy party in a basement
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The "exceptions" we make to social distancing are ones we're literally FORCED TO because people would DIE otherwise, if they couldn't get groceries or go to the pharmacy to buy meds
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The virus doesn't actually care about this either, which is why we have a steady march of people CONTINUING TO GET INFECTED AND GET SICK at supermarkets, at warehouses and processing facilities, and at hospitals
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Any "reasonable concessions" you make so people can go hang out at the beach again if they pinky promise not to make out with any strangers just speeds up the rate at which those "essential workers" get exposed, infected and in some cases killed
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Unless you're willing to look at that equation and tell those "heroes" to their face "It was worth it for X number of you to die so we could that beach party", unless you actually understand what the tradeoff is, you should shut the fuck up
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Conservatives are so used to free-riding on liberals’ self-sacrifice (eg rural white people rioting over Obamacare, which taxed productive urban economies to provide *them* w healthcare subsidies) that a situation where that doesn’t work does not compute https://twitter.com/lawnerdbarak/status/1250599503712923649?s=21 …https://twitter.com/lawnerdbarak/status/1250599503712923649 …
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They see it as “scientists” (who count as per se liberals) say we need to Do Social Distancing. Okay, then if liberals say we need to do SD, liberals should do full-lockdown, and thereby earn our society’s quota of SD, and then the rest of us can live as normal.
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We can’t get sick from church: liberal scientists said we needed to do social distancing and those liberals did social distancing, we’re covered
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Right, exactly, it's not thought of as a need to obey the actual physical laws of nature, it's thought of as a bargain, a negotiation, like you can earn "points" somehow and be allowed a little exposure risk as a treat
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Yeah - and to be fair, there's some extent where we do have to figure out the negotiation: do restaurants stay open for take out? Do dry cleaners and laundromats stay open? Etc. But there's a cost for it.
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And I'm even sympathetic to the idea that religious events are so important, we should be willing to think about what the right balance point is there, not least because of the ways in which it handles people's stress. But not based on "you can't get sick in church"
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