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I mean, we have very little context here. But how I currently read it I'll have to agree with the "No". If you go to a party then you'll obviously run the risk of getting ill with COVID or something else like the flu, but at the moment you run that risk pretty much everywhere. COVID, the flu, and the other viruses are no longer a threat to any functioning health system. They're still a threat to many individuals, but that in and of itself is not reason to stop living your life. At some point we've concluded that the pandemic is over and the risk is no longer big enough to stop living our life. And that unfortunately means that some immunocompromised people run a big risk, but we can't stop enjoying our lifes forever or protect a few people.
Quarantining after you get sick is not "stop living life", it's a week or two of staying inside while you're still transmissible. It's not too much to ask.
It's scary how many people have the attitude that the person above does. It's so easy to just avoid being around people when not feeling well. In fact, it's always been the general expectation. It's been an eye opener seeing how many people think they're being oppressed because we ask them to consider other people around them.
I feel the same about people who take some sort of sick pride in coming to work when they're sick. Stay the fuck home, people! No one wants your disease.
They think having to wear a mask is some sort of atrocity on par with the Trail of Tears, too.
I admit i didn't think we'd be seeing people just straight up doing whatever they can to help a deadly pandemic.
I worked in healthcare for a couple years, and we had to regularly mask up. The number of people I encountered who had conditions that caused them to not be able to breathe in a mask was zero.
Post-pandemic, people acted like they were dying if they were asked to wear a mask. Such a simple thing, and the masks were freely given, but people still refused.
People suck.