Liberal Social Media Talking Points

Recently, i have been looking at some social media posting and seeing what liberal posters have been using to attack people who disagree with them (as liberal posters typically do).  Hint: trying to guilt someone into doing something you want is not a sound strategy.  Here are some of the most common I have seen (in no particular order, but numbered none the less)

All of life is a risk.  Everything is risky (and the amount of stuff that can kill you is amazing).



1) Economy over lives: this one has several different iterations, but the implication is that you are chosing money over human lives.  They are assuming that there is some binary choice and that if you chose money/financial viability you are killing people.  Ridiculous.  Financial problems/hopelessness do result in deaths.  This is one of their chief excuses for the lockdown (otherwise known as non-voluntarily quarantining the healthy - for a quarantine, it is on the government to prove you have it).

If you are not willing to put a dollar value on life (diminishing with age), you can't really compare the costs of quarantines (and other guidelines) to financial concerns.

2) If you go outside you will kill people:  "governor" Jay Inslee said this many times.  Something to the effect that if you break quarantine you will kill your grandpa.  If you "give someone the flu" (which would be near impossible to prove), you don't kill the person - the virus/complications do/does (and most likely wouldn't).  If I didn't already know he was a moron, this comment would have killed his credibility.  

Look at the odds, in WA, there has been pretty much always been a 90+% negative test rates. The tests are biased toward positives (people who take tests far more likely to have it/showing symptoms).  If that was true, even if you were exposed many times you probably wouldn't have gotten it.  Even if you got the virus, you probably would have recovered (95-95%, with at risk groups being less likely).  Nobody knows how many have been infected.  This virus has been in WA a lot longer than they acknowledge - therefore, the death and hospitalization numbers are massively skewed upward (fear).    

3) If you don't follow the "rules" you are selfish.  You have no obligation to "help" others. The assumption (at least if you're asymptomatic) should be that you do not have the virus.  Virtue signaling to others by wearing ineffective mask really does nothing.

What they are really saying is that they want you to protect them.  They are saying that their lives are more important than yours and you should accommodate them (and their irrational fears).

Who is more selfish, the person pretending they care about others when it is always about themselves or the people who won't virtue signal (knowing it likely has a negligible impact)?  You are in your life virtually alone.  To be truly selfish, it would have to be excessive concern for yourself.  A normal amount of concern for yourself and your actions is not irrational.