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There's no way these people are actually quarantining.
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."
These people were and are going to continue coughing into each others' mouths during packed indoor holiday gatherings.
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.
Quarantine but the disease magically doesn’t spread among friends or when you really need a haircut
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