Your 'need' to keep getting out there is not worth the risk to other people's lives.
we have access to is a gift and a curse. They are home to folks with zero expertise giving advice, and are littered with so many opinions that fact and fiction are blurred by the people who would rather be right than be factually correct. My town’s local Facebook group has become a breeding ground forconversation; some posts are useful, others are uplifting, and others are full of people shaming residents who are having happy hour with friends on porches.
For the record: I am on Team Shame. And the ones still socializing and living as if people aren’t dying are selfish assholes.is currently the most effective way to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, so that we can relieve our health care workers by not overwhelming hospitals and save lives. In an ideal world, we could look to our leaders during this time of crisis and see a path of responsibility being blazed by a person making decisions that protect the people who follow.
I wish I felt a sense of united solidarity with other Americans right now. National leadership has been self-serving, contradictory, and full of inaccurate information. Thankfully, some state and local leadership has diverted for the better, and some of us are doing our part to stay the fuck home. But too many folks don’t give a fuck and continue to do what they want, despite CDC guidelines and the plea of vulnerable, high-risk citizens.
The problem is that people think their wants are needs are more important than everyone else’s. And it’s exactly those people who cannot be convinced to do the right thing. It’s not that it takes a lot of courage to throw all caution to the wind; it takes privilege, ignorance, and ego. People don’t want to believe that someone else may be more important than they are right now. Sure, there is some stupidity involved, but what plagues people is a lack of emotional intelligence.
I don’t care if you are a friend, family member, co-worker, or neighbor. If you are eye rolling your way through this while still viewing yourself as #1, you are terrible and your actions are dangerous. Your need to maintain your personal liberties could mean being an asymptomatic carrier of a virus that can — and
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