• Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Liberals who have given up worrying about corona are worse than people who never worried about it in the first place.

    Edit: I'm talking about people who in March were stockpiling food, but now think it's okay to start flying across the country or go out daily when they absolutely don't have to. I know everything is fucking miserable and the government has completely failed, but its extremely disheartening to see these people who had some grasp of the situation just abandon all sense of social duty because they're bored. Not to mention it puts everyone who does have to go out (and work) at greater risk. Maybe you don't know any, but where I live we did excellent in the spring and now things are spiraling out of control precisely because rational educated people got complacent over the summer.

    • spinachupper [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I worry about it and I do what I can to remain socially distant and wear a mask but I think chiding others for not doing the same is just putting the blame for the virus's spread on "personal responsibility" rather than the gov't's refusal to sacrifice the line going up for the public good.

      • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I'm sick of the chiding around this site. it's beyond unreasonable to expect perfect behavior from millions of people when we don't even have the power to do the actually effective things (closing the fucking economy) but everyone who wants to see their family is a selfish asshole

        • BookOfTheBread [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yea this is basically the same shit I see from conservatives, pushing the blame onto failings of personal responsibility so they can try and defend the shit job the government did in stopping the spread. Funny as they are so into rugged individualism when things are going ok for them.

    • Perplexiglass [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      This... kind of feels like a strawman. I know there's a lot of hypocrites, but I can't think of any libs who've "given up worrying about it".