Samuel Gompers
Elio Addict
Okay, I get it, you're scared, and you can't do math. FWIW, AR15's have magazines, not clips. Clips do exist, but they're not what you think they are.
Pulling a 1% risk rate out of your imagination is ridiculous. It's none of your business, but I'm barely under the supposed "should have to stay home 'cuz you're gonna die" age limit. Doesn't worry me at all. Also, I strongly suspect that I already had C-19 in Feb, before it was being heavily fearmongered here in the U.S.A. Didn't die, but did feel bad for 3 weeks, and really bad for 1 week. I "self-isolated" until I was better, and didn't try to shut down the lives of 20-30 million other Americans, nor did I ask for $6k+ of debt be saddled on everybody in the country.
The death rate for healthy people is closer to 0.01%. There is a big (2 orders of magnitude) difference between the real risk and your panic-driven, claimed, risk. And yes, I am quite willing to run it. In AZ, I'm surrounded by armed people on a regular basis. You are too, even if you are unaware. They aren't shooting me, and they aren't shooting you. No blood running in the streets like was predicted before Constitutional Carry was passed here ~10 years ago.
Fear-mongering is about control. We are seeing similar death rates from the flu, but thankfully haven't gone into suicidal Chicken Little mode over fear of the flu. We lose 40K+ people in the States to traffic deaths. We know that, and could avoid almost all of those by enacting 5mph speed limits. Fortunately, we haven't gone that insane, though I do remember the 55mph NSL fiasco.
I ride a motorcycle. Far higher risk of me dying in a motorcycle crash that of C-19, but I still ride. I'm an ATGATT kind of guy, but I oppose draconian helmet laws and oppressive fines for rational rates of travel. I wear the gear because of the laws of physics, not because uninformed bureaucrats think they can save me.
All the models that fill you with such fear have been wrong, and are wrong, and will continue to be wrong. Fear and greed sell. Always have, always will. So yes, I'm sad for people who buy into both fear and greed.
I've camped in bear country. I live in an area infested with illegal aliens. I've lived around poisonous snakes. I ride motorcycles knowing that there are drunks and phone obliviots out there that could kill me. Life is full of risk, and it is still wonderful, and still worth living. With joy, and not with fear.
It's time to go back to work. America was built by people who faced their fears, huge risks, wars, death, disease, and trouble of every kind. Nobody gets out of this alive. Heroes and cowards all face death, and are defeated in the end. For those of us who understand, death is not to be feared, because it has already been defeated.
Pulling a 1% risk rate out of your imagination is ridiculous. It's none of your business, but I'm barely under the supposed "should have to stay home 'cuz you're gonna die" age limit. Doesn't worry me at all. Also, I strongly suspect that I already had C-19 in Feb, before it was being heavily fearmongered here in the U.S.A. Didn't die, but did feel bad for 3 weeks, and really bad for 1 week. I "self-isolated" until I was better, and didn't try to shut down the lives of 20-30 million other Americans, nor did I ask for $6k+ of debt be saddled on everybody in the country.
The death rate for healthy people is closer to 0.01%. There is a big (2 orders of magnitude) difference between the real risk and your panic-driven, claimed, risk. And yes, I am quite willing to run it. In AZ, I'm surrounded by armed people on a regular basis. You are too, even if you are unaware. They aren't shooting me, and they aren't shooting you. No blood running in the streets like was predicted before Constitutional Carry was passed here ~10 years ago.
Fear-mongering is about control. We are seeing similar death rates from the flu, but thankfully haven't gone into suicidal Chicken Little mode over fear of the flu. We lose 40K+ people in the States to traffic deaths. We know that, and could avoid almost all of those by enacting 5mph speed limits. Fortunately, we haven't gone that insane, though I do remember the 55mph NSL fiasco.
I ride a motorcycle. Far higher risk of me dying in a motorcycle crash that of C-19, but I still ride. I'm an ATGATT kind of guy, but I oppose draconian helmet laws and oppressive fines for rational rates of travel. I wear the gear because of the laws of physics, not because uninformed bureaucrats think they can save me.
All the models that fill you with such fear have been wrong, and are wrong, and will continue to be wrong. Fear and greed sell. Always have, always will. So yes, I'm sad for people who buy into both fear and greed.
I've camped in bear country. I live in an area infested with illegal aliens. I've lived around poisonous snakes. I ride motorcycles knowing that there are drunks and phone obliviots out there that could kill me. Life is full of risk, and it is still wonderful, and still worth living. With joy, and not with fear.
It's time to go back to work. America was built by people who faced their fears, huge risks, wars, death, disease, and trouble of every kind. Nobody gets out of this alive. Heroes and cowards all face death, and are defeated in the end. For those of us who understand, death is not to be feared, because it has already been defeated.
