[misterS]

> anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you.

Do you not count spreading a virus & possibly infecting others as causing direct harm?

[RhodoGSA]

No - I don't. If you are at a bar at the height of the pandemic, i'm definitely not causing you any harm by being there also. However, I do avoid my family who might be older. I don't go to large family gatherings. I do, however, believe American Ideals of freedom and free speech have definitely been harmed through this ordeal. No one can have any different opinion about COVID without being canceled.

As we are getting more and more data, the infection rate to death ratio is dropping lower and lower. At what point does Forcing people to lose their job and their entire lively-hoods, Taking on massive amounts of national debt that MY GENERATION will have to pay for, massive suicide increases going to be counted as direct harm? When we find out in the future after scrubbing all the data that the death toll was less than 1% but the suicide rate spiked by 30%, increased our total debt by 20% and fueled a massive recession in 5 years; how will future generations feel about the decisions we made?

[DanBC]

> massive suicide increases

> but the suicide rate spiked by 30%

Neither of these have happened.

[RhodoGSA]

See my anecdotal comment above. Also, do alittle research on the parabolic rise in suicide hotlines. People's mental health has been damaged and that fact can't be discounted. Mental health is as important as physical health in my opinion, if not more.