agsalaska said:
txags92 said:
PFG said:
Oh I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just clapping for the local officials doing the right thing in the face of leadership failure at the state level.
So you think all the sidewalks, bike trails, hike trails, and neighborhood streets should be closed to all pedestrian traffic? And that all these neighborhood groups going out and doing parades and neighborhood chats/happy hours talking to each other from across the street should be banned as well? Because all of those things involve a lot more people in a lot closer contact than my wife and I driving from my house to the beach and going out wading in the surf by ourselves. I am going to assume you have not left the house at all in the last two weeks correct? Not even to go to the mailbox? Because doing any of those things would be terribly dangerous by your standards and would be egregiously irresponsible behavior in these dire times. And God forbid, I hope you have not gotten in your car, since many many more people will die in car accidents this year than will die of this virus. Travelling anywhere by vehicle should be completely off-limits to you and your family at all times because of how unbelievably dangerous it is for all of you. Please be safe my friend...and the rest of us will decide what level of safety we feel we need in our lives...
I am pretty sure he is not referencing you and your wife walking. He is referencing the beach parties we were seeing this weekend at Lake Plugerville. I do not think any of those actions you mentioned are terribly dangerous by any standards.
Second, if you really believe your sentence 'many many more people will die in car accidents this year than die of this virus,' um. cool. You must know something that nobody else knows. That's cool. Probably explains your last sentence a lot.
That is just the problem. He IS advocating for banning individuals doing things by themselves away from everybody. If the problem is big beach parties, then ban those. If the problem is crowds at boat ramps, then close boat ramps. But what PFG is enthusiastically advocating is banning and closing all manner of things that pose absolutely no threat to anybody, simply because there is the possibility that a few people might not do it safely. That is the only thing I object to.
It is exactly the same as the way people want gun laws to be used. There are millions of gun owners who are responsible and law abiding, and there are a relative few who use them in criminal acts. Rather than go after the few who use them criminally, PFG's preferred solution would appear to be to just take guns away from everybody because nobody can be trusted to use them properly if there are a few who don't. I simply don't agree with that kind of abuse of government power.
I totally get that this is a dangerous virus and I am not one of the "this is nothing but a flu" types. I mis-stated a statistic regarding vehicle fatalities because I swapped the number if annual injuries for number of annual deaths. But the concept remains the same...roughly 33,000 people died in car accidents last year. With thousands dying and many millions more at risk, I would assume that risk is completely unacceptable to PFG and that he has refused to drive anywhere to protect himself and his family...
