In an age where it is apparently ok to separate young children from their families and incarcerate them I find it incredibly tone deaf to complain that asking typically "privileged" (45% white, median family income $192k) students to follow some simple health and safety rules and not throw or attend large parties is somehow now "inhumane".
The letter (initially written by professors from Johns Hopkins and Harvard) is addressed to university administrations across the country, for one thing. For another, university administrations might consider the opinions of university faculty; DHS is for now likely to say, "talk to the hand."
Having to restrain yourself and your whimsical desire to attend a party is not "social isolation".
It boggles the mind how you're trying so hard to make a mountain out of a molehill while at the same time downplaying human rights violations targeting children.
You're the one downplaying human rights violations, calling the human need for human contact "whimsical desire to attend a party". I don't consider either the violations of children's rights nor the ones the article is about even remotely acceptable.
Let's not be childish here. Being asked to skip a party or preserve a personal space of 6 feet between any random person you may cross paths with is not a human rights violation. Such whiny, self-serving and shortsighted remarks don't help any argument regarding how the covid19 is being handled. We should simply grow up and face the facts that enduring a momentary inconvenience is enough to stop people from dying.
You do not get to decide what impact social isolation has on other people. Months and years of social isolation aren't worth it to prolong the lives of maybe 0.5% of the population.
> You do not get to decide what impact social isolation has on other people.
You're describing skipping a party or two as "social isolation".
You make it sound like they are exiling people remote island-prisons until the end of time.
You don't die if you stay at home on a Saturday night. However, you and your loved ones do die and suffer if you catch a disease and mindlessly spread it.
Stop whining, put on your big boy pants, and stop placing your whimsical desires for a life of party ahead of everyone else's health.
> Please stop making random guesses about my life.
I'm not second-guessing anything. I'm referring to the facts stated in the article. You would do well to do the same instead of trying to run away from the discussion by going on a tangent with ad-hominens and other fictional grasping at straws.
> That probability is extremely low.
That's extremely ignorant and irresponsible of you to say, but this blend of mindlessness and narcisism and sociopathy does explain why you are hell-bent on fighting for your right to party while other people die all around you.
