You don't know the long term impacts either. Yet you claim the data is clear. You are speculating and people beating this drum are imposing tremendous social costs they refuse to acknowledge. What are the long term impacts of sedentary lifestyles, isolation, depression, increased drug use, reduced educational opportunity, poverty (from not being able to work)?
And if the bolded statement were true, you wouldn't have been mask shaming Zegras.
I didn't claim anything was clear, I said the opposite.
We do not know the long term effects of the virus, so saying that any group of people is "safe" is patently false.
The other things you list are absolutely problems in the United States that would not be solved by simply avoiding Covid precautions; there is a reason those have been increasingly ubiquitous issues in the country and the root is not because people had to wear masks and not go to parties for a few months. That is incredibly simplistic to list those as
equal risks to the prevalent danger at hand.
The zegras thing that started this was that I thought it was stupid, dangerous thing to do if taken at face value, and that set everyone off for some reason. If he wants to take that risk, fine I guess, but I can still think that is really stupid, it's not either/or. The rest of the argument hasn't even been about zegras, it was more about how people here chose to respond.
The reaction to the initial comment is really strange. It's ok to criticize a player on the team for doing something dumb, that doesn't condemn the person to eternal damnation or mean he is going to be a bad player or something. I don't really understand the defensiveness.
