[hotpotamus]

Is fear of dying irrational? I mean, it's going to happen to us all anyway, so does it matter if it's via airborne virus or whatever it is that conservatives fear is going to kill them?

[throwawaylinux]

Fear of dying of covid because someone is taking their child to play in a park certainly is.

[hotpotamus]

And was the contagiousness of covid perfectly understood as soon as it was discovered?

[prottog]

Certainly by the time vaccine mandates came around, we had a pretty good idea of the contagiousness and lethality of the disease.

[hotpotamus]

At that point, they had also taken the caution tape off the playground by me. I'm unaware who mandated that. As far as I can tell, many aspects of the disease and vaccines are still quite controversial, though it seems to me that vaccines are helpful.