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Originally Posted by iris lilies
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Likely just one!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
People eager to "stick it to the libs" have to maintain appearances, you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gardnr
alcoholics not taking good care of their health ...
bad for the surrounding community (spread) for sure, but not shocking considering ..
I doubt it-they are fine drinking at home. It was all those screaming "I want my rights" that went to the bars to socialize with their fellow hoax activists!Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
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Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
I'm impressed with this ability to divine group motivations based on nothing, that's awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gardnr
Even if they had started out somewhat "responsibly," by the end of the night their masks would be hanging off, and they'd be all up in their fellow revelers' faces. I contrast that with Dr. Fair, the virologist featured on the news who is hospitalized and receiving oxygen. He believes he caught the virus on a crowded flight to New Orleans. Because he was appropriately masked and gloved, and wiped down with sanitizer, he thinks he caught it when particles entered his eyes.
Do genetics play a role in US responses to the virus?
We are a nation of immigrants, and in order to pick up and move to a new country you are most likely going to have a risk taking gene. We are also a mobile - some might say restless country by and large. I am reading Prairie Fires now about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family moved all the time, similar to some of my ancestors as I discovered doing genealogy.
Maybe those bellying up to the bar in Wisconsin or continuing to travel are expressing those genes. For instance, the daughter and son-in-law of a coworker were happy to be furloughed so they could travel from New England down to Tennessee to get a rescue dog.
I think that's an interesting question, and risk-takers may have something in their DNA. I also have ancestors that came on the early ships right behind the Mayflower, and their grit and courage amaze me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
But motivation separates the risk-taking settlers and risk-taking COVID-defiers. Motivation to improve your life, to learn about the world, to create in brand new ways in new circumstances is risk-worthy. Motivation to cling to the old ways of shopping and socializing and conducting business as usual, when doing so imperils the lives of all of us, is not courageous. The people who traveled for the rescue dog is a nice story, but bellying up to a bar?
I think there is a more pronounced strain of anti-authoritarianism here than in most other nations. So many of our immigrant ancestors had little reason to trust or respect authority. People on the losing side of wars sold into slavery. Religious dissidents of various degrees of fanaticism. Exiled scoundrels. Escaped criminals. The desperate poor. Failed revolutionaries. The suffering oppressed, perhaps looking to do a little oppression of their own.
Is it any wonder that when various elites claim to speak for God, our best interests, Science or the latest fashion in social justice, a substantial minority almost reflexively thumbs its nose? Even at a substantial cost? The old Tory in me deplores it. The libertarian in me applauds it.