By: Biky

Biky — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:48:33 +0000

Haha, brilliant. I always tell people this too: one genuinely scared would just stay at home, government free gibs or not. I also get these stupid replies with “you have to work or you will starve,” which is fair to some extent, but I always tell people that it’s their own fault and I get tons of flak for telling them the truth. Why haven’t they saved enough food and water to last them for a while? Why haven’t they saved enough money to not work a few months and used one of the abundant catering / delivery applications to order supplies (or better yet, pay a neighbor to do their shopping)? Then I get all kinds of excuses and shifting the blame on someone / something else. And when I manage to get them back on track and tell them that people have 2 options: 1) take the risk and go to work, knowing that you may die of any causes, disease or not, by working, or 2) staying safe in your house and starve to death – I am still the one getting flak. Why? All of this is true, nothing in life is without risk, going outside your home, you face the risk of being hit by a car or by lightning. Improbable? Yes. 0% chance? No. We ultimately die of something and it’s every individual’s duty to assess the risks involved in most cases and take a decision based on that. But people nowadays are so entrenched in “safe spacing” that telling people the truth is making them feel anxious. We live in a sick society that has been pampered by the nanny state to such an alarming extent that nowadays people don’t even want to consider that risks exist and god-forbid they have to *gulp* take decisions for themselves!

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