Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[LurkerJ]

Hiku said:

LurkerJ said:

I am glad you're someone who can follow all the rules all the time. More power to you. But to pretend that someone doesn't give two fucks about others lives because he is an infectious disease specialist who coughed on his hands..... aren't you taking it too far? 

No.
He is especially and deeply educated in this field and has known for decades that he can very easily save some lives during his lifetime by the simple effort of raising his arm to his mouth.

He never made that slight effort, that slight inconvenience, a habit, knowing full well that it can save lives.
That tells you a lot about how much he cares about people living or dying.

LurkerJ:
That's like saying most of us here don't care about human lives because we continue to do thins that worsens climate change like buying products from china instead relying on home-made products, and playing video games instead greener entertainment like playing sports, eating anything that isn't remotely healthy promoting encouraging obesity, driving cars instead of whatever, the examples are too many. I am starting to cringe at how many of us here pretend we care that much about all human lives. No one fucking cares to that extent about preventable deaths, and it's despicable to pretend otherwise just to point fingers at people we hate. 

Not unless we have a degree and specialized education in the consequences of doing any of those things, or if giving up any of those things are comparable to raising your arm to your mouth.

Hint: They're not.

That's the 'extent about preventable deaths' you're talking about here.
Raising your arm...

If you can't even be bothered to raise your arm when you cough, then yes, you're an asshole. No one is asking you to give up your hobbies or spend a lot more money buying local, etc. Just raising your arm. A sight inconvenience.

But you're right. I'm sure a lot of people here don't care much about people's lives, even to that 'extent'. And it's usually pretty telling who they are, in spite of how much they try to act like everyone else is just as bad as them.

You need a degree and a specialised education to know that everyone in this forum is spending too much money on things they don't need while Africans kids die because of lack of basic resources? Or that the vast majority of the west doesn't care that they're part of an allegiance that supports or stands by instead of stopping foreign that leads to countless deaths? Do you really anyone to tell you that we are not devoting enough attention to those in need or caught in wars?

This is how I read what you said:

• Raising the arm = an asshole if you don't because it's very easy for me to do so and to remember to hold my urge to cough
• Buying an xbox, which I don't need and while I fully know this money could be spent on kids in africa and prevent deaths = that's fine because because that's my hobby and it doesn't matter that there are alternative hobbies that cost no money 

Hiku, I think any honest person on this forum would admit we are all very privileged, and that most of us haven't and won't do enough for preventable deaths, and that's fine, I am not shaming anyone, we are all assholes, and my purpose in life is to be less of an a hole than I am right now.

Your purity cough test is quite selective and biased, and judging ANYONE on earth based on one bad or good thing they've done is something I try to avoid because I know we're all humans who are capable of doing and saying dumb shit.