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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A jaded, world-weary fellow like you needs to call other people idealists.
The Galbraith quote didn't there. I don't know that the sushi shop owner is a conservative at all. He's just behaving selfishly.
And "selfish" is not the best description of the conservatives who have decided that having to wear masks or get vaccinated is an intolerable threat to civil liberties they hadn't thought about a few years ago -- the point is that they way they define their self-interest is malleable, not a simple fact in the way that an economist would think, but a posture they'll change for other reasons.
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Man, I never knew you were so high handed and pompous.
The sushi joint owner is just trying to economically survive. He's a small businessperson who is willing to put himself at risk to stay afloat and inviting others who are willing to put themselves at risk to do so. Caveat emptor. (Particularly now, as omicron is a variant so weak the only thing he's likely to give patrons is an annoying cold-like experience.)
Do you really think this little guy was supposed to just roll over and watch his business get hammered?
I'd say your high-handed elevation of what you think is most important over his, and the temerity to judge the guy on top of it, demonstrates exactly the voice that needs to be eliminated from policy discussions.
And it's also worth noting the sushi restaurant owner isn't much different than Jeff Bezos, who invited me into his store every day thru the pandemic, and whose invitation I accepted - Daily.
I wore a mask, I distanced, and I warned anyone who visited me: "I go out every day, to buy all sorts of things." If they were scared, they could avoid me. I gave them the option. (I had to tell my in-laws to stay away because I found their devil-may-care attitude a bit scary for folks their age.)
There's How Reasonable Sane People Really Dealt With This Pandemic, and there's How Utopians Think Everyone Should Have Dealt.
You're in the latter camp - fucking loony.
