It is difficult to feel sympathy for people who walk past all the warning signs, climb

[Atticus]

over the barricades, walk up to the edge of the cliff, gaze into the abyss, smile and step off into the void.

Is this not what the "open the country" protesters are doing?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Essentially, yes IMHO

[Mike 03]

2. I want to know what they're going to say when they get sick.

"It was worth it for my country?"

or

"Whoa, Trump was a lying sack of shit and it almost killed me! I've woken up! I've seen the light!"

[Salviati]

8. They will bitch and moan about how no one told them it was this serious

and complain that the government didn't do more to keep it under control.

Their hypocrisy is matched only by their stupidity.

[Dale Neiburg]

9. My prediction:

Why didn't anybody WARN me??????????

[tanyev]

10. It's the librul's fault!

[The Mouth]

11. They will find a way to blame it on Obama

bet on it.

[uponit7771]

14. ... then kill their kid or parents with their sickness. I wonder too

[backscatter712]

3. I'm fresh out of sympathy for the Darwin-Award-winning crowd.

[Mike 03]

5. That's perfect.

[czarjak]

12. "Come and Take It", indeed?

[Tanuki]

4. Unfortunately, each one of them is dragging innocent people off the cliff as well.

[dalton99a]

6. They are cruel and selfish assholes.

[RockRaven]

7. They're more like suicide bombers

Suicide bombers of uncertain and highly variable effectiveness, anyhow.

[czarjak]

13. Certain destruction if they can't have it their way...

Fuck 'em!

[spinbaby]

15. Let's examine the other side

I follow my county’s local Facebook group in a rural red area in western Pennsylvania. It runs heavily towards conservative politics, anti-shutdown rhetoric, and crackpot theories. But there is a dark subtext to all of it and that subtext is that many people here have been economically devastated by the shutdown. There are many anxious posts about collecting unemployment and getting food. These are people who have never known or seen a Covid patient, but are staring homelessness and starvation in the face because of Covid.

[Atticus]

17. Responsible leaders are advocating a coordinated, careful and phased re-opening

that is based on facts gathered from testing and tracking. This would get these people back to work, but in a different way, perhaps in different jobs.

Unfortunately, there are no "responsible leaders" in the Trump regime. Unemployment = hunger and hardship and desperation, i.e., chaos. And, chaos is what Trump is counting on to remain in power.

And, if a few extra hundred thousand Americans die because of his ignorance,---"whatever".

[spinbaby]

18. I think the chaos is on purpose

If people get a plan and support, they’ll cooperate.

[Brainfodder]

16. They have faith and/or some mental disorder(s) and/or just plain old, dumb?

That's the excuses I can fit in the reply title, I'll choose to stay clear of them as much as possible, especially now.

By faith, it could be religion and/or just other people and/or in their news choices.

Some folks can't handle any challenge to their beliefs, either?

Either way arrived at Shitshow Mountain, and this appears to be the series finale?