I Made This to Visualize the Ridiculousness of the Current Hysteria. Feel Free to Share!
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The fact that this is a communicable disease I think is the reason why society is freaking out. A lot of people have people in their lives who are vulnerable (elderly and/or chronically ill people) and are terrified of the prospect of their vulnerable family member/friend catching the virus and dying. Their worst fear is infecting that vulnerable person themselves. The fear of this virus is literally destroying families. My dad had me when he was old. So he's elderly. And he found out he had Stage IV metastatic cancer earlier this year. My family thinks I'm selfish for wanting to see my girlfriend for fear that I'm gonna catch the virus and infect and hospitalize/kill my dad. Even though less than 2 people/day are dying of the virus in Ontario and there's only 66 Ontarians hospitalized with COVID right now, 30 in ICU and 15 intubated. Our society has lost their fucking mind.
I literally wrote a mental note in my mind to write my older sister out of my will if I die before her for calling me selfish for carrying about wanting to "get laid" over my dad's health. When I have been in a relationship for over 1 year and my girlfriend and I missed our 1 year anniversary because my family is terrified that I'm gonna kill dad. As my dad's caretaker, I am starting to resent this shit. If I didn't take care of him, neither of my siblings would take care of him since my brother lives 75 minutes away by car and my sister is downtown with no car. And yet I'm called the selfish one. Why are people so fucking insane? The positivity rate in Ontario is like 0.4%. My girlfriend has no symptoms. I'm expected to give up my love life for fractions on fractions of a percent of risk. I texted all the coronavirus numbers to my sister and she just ignored my facts.
That's rough man. I'm glad you came out and talked about it. This lockdown has been hard on every one for many reasons. If I was in your shoes I'd say fuck it and go see your girlfriend. Keep trying to redpill your family slowly. Most people will pull themselves out of the cave and see the truth.
My sister is a white Liberal yuppie in downtown Toronto. Has mainstream liberal opinions. Mid-40s, she wanted kids but she was never happy with any of the interested suitors before her eggs expired. Chad didn't put a ring on it. It's cringe for me to mention Chad and my sister in the same thought but when I've seen her turn away so many guys who weren't "good enough" for her, I can't help but think that she expected a monogamous Chad with the six sixes to put a ring on it or something. So no shit she is not going to care about my love life and happiness because she feels resentful of the fact that her ship has sailed for kids. I wanted to go off on her so bad but she is an executor on my dad's will. I gotta pick my battles. My girlfriend has also not been taking the quarantine thing very well mentally. Humans need human touch. Texting, Skype and Zoom isn't enough.
Cases are going to go up in the fall when schools re-open. This is never going to go away completely. People need to get used to it. I don't want my dad to die. No one wants vulnerable people in their life to die. But society can't keep going on like this. Liberals are politicizing Doug Ford's decision to bring the kids back to school. Maybe remote learning is okay for older kids. But holy shit, an entire generation of kids is going to grow up to be socially and cognitively impaired without social interaction with peers and in-person instruction.