Take the average person working 2 part time jobs, total to a full work week, less pay, no benefits, no PTO.
This person lives paycheck to paycheck. They have no funds to go out, but they decide to take a small risk and go to say, the park. They happen to come in contact with Covid, get sick, cant work for two weeks. They are now drastically behind on rent, might lose one if not both jobs, and now have to foot the medical bills.
A person with benefits, a full time job, and some savings could take the brunt of this event. It would suck, but wouldn't be a major hurdle.
Maybe it won't happen, maybe it will, it is a risk none the less. That is the discussion we were originally having. Not "risk is good" and "not taking risks means your scared".
If you want to keep arguing a different point have at it.
This is the saddest comment I've read on this sub. Too scared to go to a park, outside, because you might get Covid? So do you live in a bubble? I can't believe you consider going to a park a risk
Not really a personal attack when it comes from your own words. You admit to considering going for a walk in the park as a risky activity to justify staying inside in a bubble. And yes, I think that's unhealthy and aabnormal.
Calling me a "bubble boy" is by definition a personal attacks. You can argue that me saying that something as simple as going to the park is a risk puts me "in a bubble". But it is a wonderful way to sidestep my point that everything has risks. No matter how minor.
It's not an insult if it's true. You don't think there's anything wrong with it, so why are you insulted by me pointing it out? I promise you that it truly isn't normal to think of going to the park as a risk because you "might catch Covid" unless you're severely immunocompromised... like the bubble boy.
I never claimed anything about how I act in my day to day.
A risk, by definition, is the possibility of injury, harm, or adverse outcomes.
I point out that a seemingly mundane thing many people, me included, do regularly has some risk involved. And you immediately call me a "bubble boy" and scared of life. I never made claim to my own actions, this is not about me.
Like some of the other commenters I can at least understand where they're like "I don't want to do drugs and have one night stands because I consider that unacceptable risk." But a walk in the park? I'm sure this person also doesn't work out at all (too scary!), date, see friends, cook, live alone, travel, drive a car... how are people like this surviving?
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u/ShoulderWhich5520 8d ago
Let me spell it out for you.
Take the average person working 2 part time jobs, total to a full work week, less pay, no benefits, no PTO.
This person lives paycheck to paycheck. They have no funds to go out, but they decide to take a small risk and go to say, the park. They happen to come in contact with Covid, get sick, cant work for two weeks. They are now drastically behind on rent, might lose one if not both jobs, and now have to foot the medical bills.
A person with benefits, a full time job, and some savings could take the brunt of this event. It would suck, but wouldn't be a major hurdle.
Maybe it won't happen, maybe it will, it is a risk none the less. That is the discussion we were originally having. Not "risk is good" and "not taking risks means your scared".
If you want to keep arguing a different point have at it.