[ryandrake]

I take steps to avoid dying from a car accident (wearing a seatbelt and not drunk driving) and, hopefully, am not suicidal. I also try to eat healthy and exercise to avoid the many ways your diet and lack of exercise can kill you.

So why is it weird to take steps to avoid dying of a preventable deadly pandemic?

[chrisco255]

For the same reason that it's weird to wear a bulletproof vest everywhere you go: it makes life less lively and enjoyable and it makes human contact less fulfilling. Your focus becomes staying alive rather than being alive. You lose out on social serendipity. You rob yourself of fulfilling experiences like dancing with someone you just met, singing karaoke with strangers, smiling at a boy or girl you're into getting smiled back at, smelling the roses, and taking in the here and the now.

You can look behind every bush for a killer, maybe it will save your life, but it's no way to live life.

[polishdude20]

Yeah it's sort of silly because the reason the risk of car accidents is low is because you take steps to avoid them.