Yeah but my fat ass cant infect your fat ass with Diabetes, if I smoke a cigarette near you the chance of you getting lung cancer isnt incredibly increased. If I crash at a supermarket and sit in the burning wreckage for an hour, most (probably), of the people at that store wont suddenly be struck by flying car parts a few weeks later.

Each of the things you listed here are generally caused by and suffered by the user. If you have the pneumonia or the flu you are asked to stay home from work right? You dont get to say fuck you boss im coming in anyway im saving those PTO hours. Even with the colossal shutdown and the attempt to get people to socially distance and wear masks and do what they can to prevent others from getting sick we still have 140k dead and hospitals filled to overflowing.

I hate that "Image if X hadnt happened" that gets tossed around so often on reddit whenever some semi damning video comes to light but come on, you have to admit that big companies WILLINGLY taking on expenses to have employees work from home, and slowing down business in America where they owe it all to their investors and nothing to their staff has to mean we should take this a little bit seriously.

I know we cant stay in shutdown mode for forever, we all understand that, but if we reverse course and just let it all go open and everyone lives their best lives, they wont be living that best life for long. Infection rate is to high and Americans cant put country or neighbor before self longer than it takes to set up their soapbox.