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Topic	Donald Trump is spreading COVID: Part 2
adjl 10/08/20 12:51:16 PM #313:	OhhhJa posted... Living your life is necessary though and I probably stand the chance to die in a car crash or a random act of violence almost as much as I do from covid statistically, if not more. adjl posted... you were quite happy to chime in and say "that's not really analogous because you aren't factoring in the fact that you probably won't be exposed" (though also avoiding giving an answer to the actual question), relying on that logic to continue disapproving of precautions. Well, it's time to break out that analogy again, only this time you can't hide behind vague "you probably won't be exposed" defenses. Every person working anywhere close to Trump right now is being forced to play that game. We're not talking about your everyday life. We're talking about Trump insisting on going into the White House instead of remaining isolated in a hospital and doing all of his duties from there/delegating what can't be done there to Pence. We're talking about Trump demanding that he be paraded around in front of his supporters, all but guaranteeing that the security staff involved will be infected. The odds of being infected during everyday life are irrelevant here (though would be high enough without precautions that using current infection rates to disparage the precautions that have kept them so low is terribly silly). OhhhJa posted... You could tell me I have 1000 chances to roll a 6 on a 6 sided die or I die and I wouldn't play despite having pretty much 100% chance. It's an unnecessary risk. Which is precisely the point, as elaborated on in the part of the post you cropped out. Covid's death (or even serious illness) rate is low enough to be an acceptable risk for necessary activities. It's high enough, however, that taking unnecessary risks should be avoided, which is exactly the basis for every suggested precaution, as well as for saying that Trump should stay isolated in hospital until he's no longer contagious. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:945610387] in Donald Tru... [t:79021622]...</cite> <quote>OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>Living your life is necessary though and I probably stand the chance to die in a car crash or a random act of violence almost as much as I do from covid statistically, if not more.</quote>adjl posted... </cite> <quote>you were quite happy to chime in and say "that's not really analogous because you aren't factoring in the fact that you probably won't be exposed" (though also avoiding giving an answer to the actual question), relying on that logic to continue disapproving of precautions. Well, it's time to break out that analogy again, only this time you can't hide behind vague "you probably won't be exposed" defenses. Every person working anywhere close to Trump right now is being forced to play that game.</quote> We're not talking about your everyday life. We're talking about Trump insisting on going into the White House instead of remaining isolated in a hospital and doing all of his duties from there/delegating what can't be done there to Pence. We're talking about Trump demanding that he be paraded around in front of his supporters, all but guaranteeing that the security staff involved will be infected. The odds of being infected during everyday life are irrelevant here (though would be high enough without precautions that using current infection rates to disparage the precautions that have kept them so low is terribly silly). OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>You could tell me I have 1000 chances to roll a 6 on a 6 sided die or I die and I wouldn't play despite having pretty much 100% chance. It's an unnecessary risk.</quote> Which is precisely the point, as elaborated on in the part of the post you cropped out. Covid's death (or even serious illness) rate is low enough to be an acceptable risk for necessary activities. It's high enough, however, that taking unnecessary risks should be avoided, which is exactly the basis for every suggested precaution, as well as for saying that Trump should stay isolated in hospital until he's no longer contagious. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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