I’m talking about going to the pharmacy or the gas station, basically. Where it’s not practically possible to maintain six feet distance.
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If you go in and out and don't talk to anyone your risk is, in practical terms, a lot lower than that of anyone who works in a hospital
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I’m saying that I don’t believe I should be expected to voluntarily increase the risk to me or my mother by any amount when my community is intentionally and overwhelmingly increasing the risk to everyone
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What are you being asked to do voluntarily?
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I guess she's talking about medical grade N95s not being avaliable for purchase on the open market
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I think it’s a moral thing to want your mother to not die choking to death, and not outside the scope of most traditional moralities to value those dearest to you above the abstract social good
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Yeah in a pandemic your actual chance of getting infected is usually a reflection of overall societal risk levels, like background radiation The odds of any random individual infecting you is still very low, it's a cumulative probability
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Which means you really can't separate personal risk from societal risk, if you do get infected it will probably be the indirect result of something you have no connection with, in a big Kevin Bacon chain
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Getting infected because of Sturgis even though neither you nor anyone you know has any idea what that even is, etc And overflowing hospitals will absolutely throw gasoline on the fire in terms of overall background risk
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I mean, the local hospital is at capacity. AFAIK it’s an issue of beds/wards, not anything else. Mayo Clinic, the other local hospital system, is not at capacity but they have *connections*.
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