Soaring Contest and Coronavirus

On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 6:28:38 PM UTC-6, Bojack J4 wrote:
Well Mark, can my icu nurse then choose not to treat you when you come in gasping for air?

Very selfish and short sighted comments by you.

Does your ICU nurse refuse to treat motorcyclists who don't wear a helmet? Does she refuse treatment to drunks who play with fireworks? Does a hospital (publicly funded) have the right to refuse treatment to the taxpayer who contributed to its existence?

But if I protest the over reach of the Government restricting my Constitutional rights, like freedom to assemble, practice (a) religion or just leave my house to visit a (non-essential) business, you think I am personally carrying the plague. I disagree, especially since I live in a rural community with virtually no cases of COVID-19. But a hell of a lot of future bankruptcies, loss of livelihoods, increasing domestic abuse, and financial hardship on some of my favorite people. You know, the charming waitresses who used to laugh with me over morning coffee, the guys at the welding shop who used to sell me steel for my projects and all the other folks who made our lives happy and productive.

It's going to be tragic when we see the suicide rates skyrocket as the social pressure causes vulnerable people to just give up.

I notice that a lot of bureaucrats are not working, but are still drawing full pay. I guess I am not that important. I am self employed, don't qualify for all of the handouts designed to make us more dependent on Government charity and I am resigned to the probability that the egregious plunge into debt to prop up the economy will result in rampant inflation due to the unprecedented increase in the money supply.

Yes, I practice "social distancing," wear a face covering when appropriate and minimize my travel. But I consider myself an "essential business," simply because I like to eat food, and I have to do something to be able to afford to do so.

Send me a ****load of money so I can become one of you.