@Shop-et-al wrote:
Reporting on neighbors and other people is gestapo-like, and that voyeuristic practice should have died when Hitler passed on to wherever overbearing murderous nutcases go.
Nah. It's not necessarily spying if you just happen to notice (in an unavoidable way) that your neighbor has some giant party. It just depends. . . I know you'd report your neighbor if he was a child molester, right? So, reporting a neighbor isn't wrong either. It often just depends for me. I wouldn't report them if they littered and threw a soda can on the ground. My neighbor's kid did that. I might report them for COVID depending on the situation.
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"The Exponential Power of Now" (March 13, 2020)
Shopetal - I posted this article back in March in another thread. If you didn't catch it, I'd recommend taking 15 minutes of your day to read it. It was the single greatest motivating factor for me to wear a mask, social distance, and isolate. It's about the power of exponential math and how one person's actions and A SINGLE INFECTION can dramatically/exponentially change things for the better or worse. I'd like to think my actions reduced Virginia's case count/deaths by a lot (at least, locally in my city). Who knows, right? But, I know I did my part and for the longest time, we had a fantastic nation-beating curve...until just the past 10 days or so.
If people who are COVID-fatigued and need some inspiration, I'd read/reread that article. It might give you the strength to fight on. Mass vaccination is a few months away. You can literally dramatically change the course of history with your lone single actions to prevent JUST ONE infection. Read/reread it. Think about it.
Be encouraged.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/25/2020 01:01AM by shoptastic.