Pls respect Canadian laws

cptqueeg wrote:
Your assumption the total amount of infections is a forgone conclusion is only of several falsehoods in your opinion.

The amount of infections in total is controlled by the actions of the people. Clearly several countries and states have managed to not only flatten the curve, but BEND it.

Sorry, but you are wrong. Think about the area under the graph. You are mistaking stretching out the infections over a longer period of time with reducing the overall number of infections. Without a vaccine everyone required to have become immune through infection to provide herd immunity for the remainder has to catch the virus to become immune. That is a fixed number that cannot be altered in any given population. If herd immunity requires 98% immunity in a given population you cannot force a lower percentage by slowing down the rate of infection in that population.

Those countries are still getting infections but they have extended the duration of the infection rate _or_ they have reached herd immunity.

Let's also look at the sensibilities. Allowing people to to mingle without masks is not a mandatory thing. If you don't want to then you don't have to. Stay home. It's called freedom. If you own a business you can mandate mask wearing and you must accept that some people will go elsewhere. It's called freedom for both you and your customers.

Furthermore, you have no need whatsoever in most of the western world to have to go to a grocery store and shop. Somewhere close to you will be a store that you can order online and pick up at the kerb. Don't come into the store with we unclean ones and then claim we're risking your life.

If I chose to go out without a mask it is my responsibility to stay away from my mother in laws nursing home to protect her. If you choose to go out unprotected it's your responsibility to keep your granny safe. It is no more my responsibility to look after your granny than it is for you to look after my mother in law. If either of us chose the freedom to go unmasked then we shouldn't be going to old people's homes, care facilities or near people who have conditions that makes them vulnerable but it most certainly is their responsibility to stay away from people who are potentially infected.

My 90 year old father in the UK isn't allowed in any shops or post offices etc. He has neighbors and volunteers run his errands and drop them off at the door. He walks the river bank for three miles every day and zooms the family and his friends for company. While I'm very happy about this he is, in reality, only hiding from the disease. Eventually, they will allow him into a shop or post office and if he chooses to enter then he accepts the risk of infection. But again, the UK is only stretching out the period where infections will take place.

You may choose to hide from the virus for the rest of your life. It would be quite possible I'm sure, but most of us don't want to live like grubby little hermits never leaving our homes that gradually fill with rubbish because going to the curb is all a bit too risky.