Author: Matt74
Date: 2020-08-09 08:12
Obviously, I didn’t say that because I thought it would be popular...and not because I wanted to make anyone upset.
I want to clarify a misunderstanding. I made an error in giving myself as an example. It obscured the point. I meant to say that everyone is at risk everyday from a million things, but we mostly ignore them, because we have to. In some ways we are even a threat to others, but we are less aware of that. The virus has made one of these threats more apparent.
I don’t fault anyone for making the personal choices they do at present. If you want to stay home you can. However, I believe that it is not wrong to try to live a normal life. There are serious consequences to both.
Attempting to avoid the virus has become an absolute good, to which all others must be subjected. We even prevent aging, sick, and dying family members who DO NOT have the virus from seeing one another. That is heartless and cruel. There are very serious consequences to our current course, many of which may be more lasting and more serious than the virus itself. We see these things happening to people we know.
We can all have different opinions about what should be done and when, but in my opinion it is fear, not reflection, driving the current state of things. I believe it is wrong to deny young people the opportunity to go to school (if they choose) and to play music together (if they choose).
If we were collectively in a better state of mind perhaps we could find together a positive course of action, something like Ed proposes, but we have to recognize that the outcome will be different. A year or two when you are 18 is very different than when you are over 40.
- Matthew Simington
Post Edited (2020-08-09 08:13)
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