Deniers and Disbelievers; "If I get Corona, I get Corona"

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/us/deniers-and-disbelievers-if-i-get-corona-i-get-corona.html

By John Branch
March 22, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

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They were the defiers and the disbelievers. They were those eager to flout authority or those afflicted with cabin fever, if not Covid-19. They were the officials crowded on the podium of the White House briefing room, doing not as they say.

They were all people who dismissed the calls for isolation, seeing more reward than risk in gathering. They conflated confidence with immunity. As in other times of national crisis, they exposed the relationship between individuals and society and our responsibility to others.

“If I get corona, I get corona,” a reveler in Florida said in a widely- shared television interview. “At the end of the day, I’m not going to let it stop me from partying.”

Under pressure, both social and governmental, their numbers shrink by the day. Their impact on spreading the virus may never be known.

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"Ok, Boomer..."

[beachbumbob]

1. I am not concern one bit as these people all tend to gravitate to one side of the political spectrum

AND only hang out with like minded ones.

So to me this IS karma.

I can take actions to limit and control my exposure

[safeinOhio]

2. If I get it, I get it. But I sure

don't want to kill anyone else because I'm to stupid to avoid it.

[Mr. Ected]

3. So I, the only liberal in town, run a firm that has only 1 other Dem on staff

There are 18 Republicans working for me. I know that because I live in rural Georgia and Republicans love to tell you down here that they are God-fearing, Trump-adoring conservatives. I keep them on staff because I need the help, and their replacements would likely sing the same tune.

I notice how much they enjoy the fact that I offer a larger benefits package than any other small employer within 50 miles. I notice how they giggled when I came up with a COVID-19 contingency plan for work several weeks ago that staggered our schedule, created remote connections to allow most of the staff to work from home, and kept the work environment as sterilized as possible for the skeleton crew left at the office. I remember almost every single one of them telling me they'd take their chances with this virus, since it was no worse than the flu, and they weren't about to let the drive-by media tell them how to live their lives.

Honestly, I didn't do all of this because I wanted to protect these ungrateful morons. I did it because I couldn't personally withstand an interruption in cash flow...and because....I'm a 60 year old man with respiratory issues. If I go down, the whole business goes down with me. They're the undeserving beneficiaries.

I'm reminded of the days of Mount St. Helen, when everyone on that mountain was told to leave because the whole thing was about to blow. I remember several people being interviewed and saying that they'd lived on that mountain all their lives and they weren't about to move away now. They would take their chances. That's what they said.

They're all dead now.

[lark]

4. Wrong target there, it's not us boomers.

It's the Millenials that are doing this, they think because they are young, it won't hurt them. Boomers are old and we know we are at a much higher risk, so don't hear this from old people, unless they are totally idiotic trumpers.

[edhopper]

5. The okay Boomers is in quotes

it was meant to be sarcastic, since the article is about younger people. notice the eyeroll after.

[lark]

7. Sorry I missed the sarcasm.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. What edhopper said

[mnmoderatedem]

8. they left out the best part

"and spread it around to many others and make the problem worse".

Idiots.

[Blecht]

9. Brady Sluder

"A reveler" is Brady Sluder.

Brady Fucking Sluder. Of Milford, Ohio.

Don't let him live this down --- ever.*


*Maybe if he apologizes profusely and devotes the rest of his life to helping others an exception can be made.