It's Not About Y O U

[Canary42]

[Borrowed from Facebook, food for thought]

Let's say you woke up with a terrible cough, a fever, and severe body aches. Immediately, you rush to the doctor and unfortunately, you’re diagnosed with COVID-19. For the last two weeks, you’ve been unaware that you were infected and you’ve ignored "the rules." You've gotten together with some close friends for pizza, had a few people over, even visited a park and a beach. You figured, “I don’t feel sick. I have the right to keep living my normal life. No one can tell me what to do."

With your diagnosis, you spend the next few days at home on the couch, feeling pretty crappy; but then you’re well again because you’re young, healthy and strong. Lucky you.

But your best friend caught it from you during a visit to your house, and because she didn't know she was contagious, she visited her 82-year-old grandfather, who uses oxygen tanks daily to help him breathe because he has COPD and heart problems. Now, he’s dead.

Your co-worker, who has asthma, caught it too, during your little pizza get-together. Now, he’s in the ICU, and he's spread it to a few others in his family, too--but they won't know that for another couple of weeks yet.

The cashier at the restaurant where you picked up the pizza carried the infection home to his wife, who has MS, which makes her immunosuppressed. She’s not as lucky as you, so she’s admitted to the hospital because she’s having trouble breathing. She may need to be placed in a medically-induced coma and intubated; she may not get to say goodbye to her loved ones. She may die surrounded by machines, with no family at her bedside.

All because you couldn't stand the inconvenience of a mask; of staying home; of changing your familiar routines for just a little while. Because you have the right, above all others' rights, to continue living your normal life and no one, I mean no one, has the right to tell you what to do.

Social Distancing = It’s not about YOU!

Wear A Mask = It's not about YOU!

Stay Home = It's not about YOU!

Get Tested = It's not about YOU!

Mask It Or Casket = It's not about YOU!
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[woofgang]

True, very true.

[10ClarionSt]

Let's say that if your aunt had been born on Monday instead of Tuesday, she might have been your uncle.

[douglas9401]

I loathe this kind of guff.

But hey, it's not about me.

[-SharonA-]

And don't forget your mask hygiene......
https://mummyoffour.com/family-health/treat-your-face-mask-like-underwear-face-mask-care-instructions/

[bednobs]

"You've gotten together with some close friends for pizza, had a few people over, even visited a park and a beach."
None of those things have been against the rules

[fraser]

It's call flu or a heavy cold nothng more, don't believe the lies, wake up and think for yourself.

[Mamyalynne]

May the saints preserve us,they're everywhere.

[lady-janine]

Thank you Fraser I DO. Why don't you? Little grey cells gone walkabout?

[woofgang]

"You've gotten together with some close friends for pizza, had a few people over, even visited a park and a beach."
"None of those things have been against the rules"

Bedknobs, they were if you had symptoms.

[Old_Geezer]

Fantasy gibberish.

Now find us a link tale where releasing a butterfly to flap away brought the end of the world.

[woofgang]

Your wish, my command
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18807

[woofgang]

well almost.....same idea, still with a butterfly but the butterfly....well read the story.

[JimF]

I'm guessing that our learned friend doesn't know anyone who has died from the virus...

[douglas9401]

Like the vast majority of people, Jim?

[Deskdiary]

Woofgang at 11.51pm.

In the scenario posted, the pizza restaurant visit, and the beach and park visit, was before the person had symptoms or a diagnosis, so all three visits were perfectly acceptable.

The FB C&P is fanciful nonsense.