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A pandemic/US epidemic is substantially different than the many diseases, including infectious disease we face. The other disease are being mitigated or controlled as much as possible with current tools available. We have not had a highly contagious novel virus in the US since 1918. The US rallied around the tools availabe, at the time, to controll the virus, isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings. Very few argued what needed to be done. It was like a war effort.What you say here reminds me of something that was asked about at another forum that I go to. The given question was this one: Is it unpatriotic of me to not give a flip what you were doing? The question is about all that took place on September 11, 2001. My answer to the question was actually "No." and the reason why I said "No." is because of our nation being the free piece of ground that it is supposed to be still. In other words, vaccinations have become available to whoever thinks that vaccinations make well enough what their fans believe to be the needed difference. Cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, crack cocaine, etc. have been made available to whoever thinks that them things make well enough what their fans believe to be the needed difference. What I am pointing out here can also be said for things like food, music, movies, books, TV shows, sport activities, clothes, what kind a place a person decides to be their home, etc...at the end of the day, no one person here in America is more patriotic compared to another.
And for the record, the rest of what I had to say over at that other forum is this:
To answer the question that got this conversation going, I don't think that its unpatriotic to not care about stuff, but depending on far you decide to fly with certain feelings concerning any matter, don't be surprised if you get busted for whatever illegal activity it is that you eventually choose to become guilty of doing. In other words, I guess that the better thing to do is to just stay focused on whatever is important enough to you which could very well be the best way to deal with anyone who makes it their goal to disrupt your life in whatever way that they can.
God bless you and our homeland always!!!
Holly
P.S. If Covid is considered an enemy, what name do we give the sicknesses that have been out there longer?
If we cannot get close to 80% vaccinated the virus will continue to ravage until natural herd immunity is attained. The estimated deaths would be between 2 to 3 million. It would take a long time to be reached, increasing the chance of a more deadly variant forming, causing more deaths. The novel virus not only kills people, it greatly damages our economy.
When we have faced threats to our country in the past, the vast majority of citizens came together. They sacrificed and took risks to minimize the damage and save our country.
Too many selfish, freightened people are not doing this to manage COVID. Sometimes you give up individual rights for the common good.
Vaccines have been mandated for schoold children for decades with very few complaining.
Those not taking the vaccine effects everyone, not just the one refusing.