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On restrictions... fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 12/12/2020 06:21:16 PM

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But I also see the other side. It’s bullshit that restaurants can’t have indoor customers but airplanes can carry passengers sealed in an aluminum tube with a recycled air supply.

A <I>filtered</I> air supply. I absolutely don't think restaurants and small businesses don't matter. But you can't have the same solution for aircrafts that you do for restaurants. They're highly different in terms of how the virus can spread. For restaurants, I think we could have managed with 25% capacity, compulsory masks, and small businesses aid given in regular doses.

<Quote>It’s bullshit that 20,000 people can assemble to protest but no more than 10 can go to church.
Hardly. The protests weren't indoor, as far as I know. And we seem to have been saved from major super spreader protests by a high proportion of mask wearing. I certainly think there's some BS in arguing every church can only host 10 congregants. It should be based on the size of the church, it's capacity, and accompanied by compulsory mask wearing to minimize risk.


It’s these arbitrary and illogical restrictions that make people think that the whole thing is bullshit.

I really don't understand how one follows the other. If a moron decides that the solution to a fire is to throw gasoline on it, do you disbelieve the fire exists?
I feel like I have lost one year of my life at a time when I don’t have any to spare. We can do much better than this. But will we?

I'm sorry about that. It's truly awful. My grandfather is 93, and he pretty much completely lost his vision during the last year. So he's seen us for the last time and we had no way to go be with him while he went through this.

It's awful that the toll isn't just in lives lost or damaged physically. The psychological scars are huge, and those know no age restriction.

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