The COVID-19 pandemic

[ijmorlan]

But as I said, we can do better if people practice things like social distancing, wearing a mask (and not using lame excuses not to), and having a very limited social bubble. Short of that, since this likely won't happen here, since many value their freedom and "rights" over anything else, we'll need to wait for a vaccine.

Those people don’t know what freedom is. They just don’t like being told that they have to do something for the good of everybody.

I value my freedom and the freedom of others, and it is for that reason that I think initial Covid reactions should have been much stronger (border quarantines, shutdowns, etc.).