[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Couch-Potato

When one scientist makes a discovery, they share it with other experts in their field. Who intern, share that knowledge with the general public. I’m still baffled by the issue people had with Covid. There was clearly a pandemic that was killing millions of people. It was a public safety hazard, the severity of or risk to your personal health you can argue back and forth as much as you’d like, but the reality was there were real world health concerns and they acted to save lives.

So people stayed home from work, you couldn’t gather in large public settings, and your local sandwich shop was delivery only… what’s the big deal? So what, we were less comfortable for about a year and your 401k took a hit. We acknowledge the firefighters at ground zero during 911 as patriots and heroes, but not the medical community for saving astronomically more lives from a different threat? It seems like a silly thing to get upset about and not thank them for their service.

My question is what course of action would those who opposed quarantine prefer during a world-wide pandemic that’s killing millions?

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