(09-22-2020, 09:20 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(09-22-2020, 12:01 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: The UK is going full idiot mode now.

Sad.

This virus is something we are going to have to live with forever. It's not going away. A vaccine will never beat it.

Get back to work and let those who are gonna die just die. Otherwise we will never have any semblance of normal ever again

Fair enough. Who among your loved ones and friends is expendable?

All of them. Including me and my 4 year old and my 6 year old.

But guess what... we are genetically strong, we will survive. And if not... so what? Seriously. Why is everyone such a coward? Life isn't special or miraculous. It's just life. Thanks to a few frigging lightning bolts that hit the right chemicals that created amino acids and proteins we now, after 3.5 billion years, have intelligent life... it's not something to cling to like everyone seems to think we should. We are not special. We are not great. We are just things the planet has created and if she decides to destroy us all - so be it.

This is going to be with us F-O-R-E-V-E-R. Why is that hard to get?

Eventually it will be considered just like the flu, every year hundreds of thousands will die. Big frigging deal. And I'm totally serious. But unlike the flu, which is always mutating, the herd immunity WILL kick in and less and less will die each year. It's called EVOLUTION. The strong will survive, the weak will die and our species will be better off for it.

I'm sorry you're a coward RJ, I truly am.

I hate to paraphrase Star Trek... but the many outweigh the few. And the many will survive and the few will die.

The quicker we stop thinking we can outsmart Mother Nature and accept that this is with us forever the quicker we can get back to work and keep going forward. All these lockdowns are doing is pressing pause or slow motion on something that needs to happen. Quick. Like a band-aid. Instead of tackling this head on we are going to force the next 5-10 generations to fix the stupid crap we have done to ourselves and the future generations.

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