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So personal attacks instead of engaging my points the legal issue in any meaningful way. That's all you're doing and you know it. You zeroed in on it to the exclusion of all else and will stick like glue to that track.
Okay so you want to talk about fitness: I believe in it. Maybe I got a little prepper in me (no tinfoil hats though), the idea that if I gotta save myself or family by running 10 miles or marching 50, then I better be ready to go, or if I gotta run 200 yards then draw aim, then it'll go better if my chest isn't on fire. They also say that the older you get, if you let yourself go, it's tough to get it back. There's lots of good reasons to keep fit, and to my knowledge, no good reasons to cultivate a lack of fitness.
Now none of that adds to or subtracts from the guy's case. But I hope he loses, because the next pandemic could be deadlier than this one and it would be a lousy legal precedent for states to be unable to take the necessary steps to protect their residents. (Then again who knows for the next pandemic maybe the folks in DC will actually be up for the fight so it won't fall so heavily on the states.)
Now that I think about it, it's the total nihilism that some display that just blows me away about this pandemic. These people who just want to let it burn, regardless of the cost. No masks, no social distancing, no shutdowns, just plunge ahead. It's as though the idea of successful wide-scale cooperation, across the full strata of society and towards a common goal, terrifies the beejezus out of them. Clearly more than this virus which apparently isn't lethal enough to suit them. Some described it to me as the sour fruit of 75 years of peace and prosperity and comparative security. Well things are moving very fast now aren't they?
Okay so you want to talk about fitness: I believe in it. Maybe I got a little prepper in me (no tinfoil hats though), the idea that if I gotta save myself or family by running 10 miles or marching 50, then I better be ready to go, or if I gotta run 200 yards then draw aim, then it'll go better if my chest isn't on fire. They also say that the older you get, if you let yourself go, it's tough to get it back. There's lots of good reasons to keep fit, and to my knowledge, no good reasons to cultivate a lack of fitness.
Now none of that adds to or subtracts from the guy's case. But I hope he loses, because the next pandemic could be deadlier than this one and it would be a lousy legal precedent for states to be unable to take the necessary steps to protect their residents. (Then again who knows for the next pandemic maybe the folks in DC will actually be up for the fight so it won't fall so heavily on the states.)
Now that I think about it, it's the total nihilism that some display that just blows me away about this pandemic. These people who just want to let it burn, regardless of the cost. No masks, no social distancing, no shutdowns, just plunge ahead. It's as though the idea of successful wide-scale cooperation, across the full strata of society and towards a common goal, terrifies the beejezus out of them. Clearly more than this virus which apparently isn't lethal enough to suit them. Some described it to me as the sour fruit of 75 years of peace and prosperity and comparative security. Well things are moving very fast now aren't they?
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