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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020

      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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    2. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

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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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      Conservatives have so internalized the dynamic that they’re entitled to free ride on liberals who self-sacrifice for the common good that they literally can’t wrap their heads around a situation where free riders make the sacrifice not work.
      2 replies 14 retweets 57 likes
    3. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @lawnerdbarak @arthur_affect

      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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    4. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @lawnerdbarak @arthur_affect

      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

      1 reply 1 retweet 23 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @lawnerdbarak

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 36 likes
    6. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak

      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.

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
    7. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak

      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"

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @lawnerdbarak

      Okay see what I think is really at issue is the belief that the world is in some fundamental way fair and apportions consequences based on moral responsibility This is generally bullshit even at the best of times but the way this particular virus works especially doesn't fit

      1 reply 2 retweets 29 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @lawnerdbarak

      Libertarians LOVE to say shit about "If I take the risk upon myself it's none of your business" But unless you move to an empty island tomorrow by yourself, you CANNOT take the risk of infectious disease upon yourself alone You ALWAYS spread it around to others

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @lawnerdbarak

      Unfortunately we do not live in a science fiction universe where we're surrounded by personal force fields and all contact with other people's germs is consensual and voluntary If we did then none of this would be an issue in the first place

      1 reply 1 retweet 27 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @lawnerdbarak

      But everyone saying "I'd rather take some small risk of an earlier death just to live a little again" aren't really bearing the risk themselves They're piling it on others, ESPECIALLY frontline retail employees who have no choice but to interact with them

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        1. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak

          Yeah, this is enormously important and exactly true. And even beyond death, the stakes of this are very high. A retail worker who makes a full recover after two awful weeks is not being well-served.

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @lawnerdbarak

          The odds are that "relaxed" social distancing with people going out to the beach etc means NONE of the people who actually did it will even get sick, but the rate of retail workers getting sick will spike upwards sharply

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @lawnerdbarak

          Which will lead to a bunch of elderly people in your neighborhood getting sick from them, and dying, and possibly filling up the ER and killing other little AND YOU WON'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS YOU WHO BROUGHT THE VIRUS IN THE DAY IT STARTED You will NEVER know

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        1. To hell with 2020, Black Lives STILL Matter‏ @BrianTheFuzzy 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @lawnerdbarak

          Would this fit into my "it's always about projection" catchphrase, too?

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        1. Natalie'Zorah‏ @TerraSirena 18 Apr 2020
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          The advice from the start for this pandemic has been to inconvenience yourself in order to protect the health of others, and from the start we have seen which parts of society find that notion appalling.

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