• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      20 days ago

      I can imagine.

      Reporter on zoom: “You and your wife have said you’ve kept in quarantine.”

      “Yeah.”

      Reporter: “Here’s a social media photo selfie of you and your wife at Walmart - yesterday.”

      “Yeah.”

      Reporter: “So in fact - both of you broke quarantine.”

      “Yeah, no. We needed diapers. And she always complains I buy the wrong ones.”

      “He always buys the wrong ones. He drives - I shop.”

    • mickey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Agree, or at best “quarantining” like COVID “lock down” where they still go to the store or visit someone’s house or pop down to a bar or cafe real quick, and still view it as the most egregious restriction of individual freedom in their lifetime.

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          I remember people being serious about not being able to get their hair cut as something that needed to be weighed against the utility of public health measures. Or a person suggesting to me that because we have 40,000 automobile deaths a year we should accept that many COVID deaths. No! That death toll indicates a sick society that has accepted needless car deaths, not that that is a baseline number of acceptable fatalities. Then the COVID death toll that first year was probably 10x that number. I don’t mean to get too serious here, there is just this really weird divide between I feel between people who integrate their continued experiences over time and people who are like, yeah no those things I forcefully and sincerely advocated for 3-4 years ago don’t mean anything blob-no-thoughts

  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Woah woah woah, quarantine? Uhh, did this country suddenly become communist Russia or something? I thought this was AMERICA, where a man can be free to get any infectious disease he wants and heal himself by sheer force of will and that pure AMERICAN spirit