Life Style Choices

[ukanonymous]

So we can go drink ourselves to death or eat ourselves to death that is clearly a 'lifestyle choice'. All these habits also encourage cancer which is the WORST death int he world from what I have seen. I get this I fully get it.

But suddenly what I want to know is why cant covid be a lifesyle choice? When old people and care workers are offered the vaccine then we should go back to normal. If there are no icu units available for you and you dare to go out in public you risk a gnarly death with no place in the ICU.

So what I would like to know is if we can take our lives into our own hands and the governments clearly dont care about it why suddenly with COVID are they banning everything and ruining the economy, devestating lives, making the country just depressed over covid when people could just consider it a life style choice and take risks if they want to?

I am just finding it hard to understand and I am getting more and more depressed about it as I feel like we are less and less in control of our own lives :( Travel was my passion and now I cant do that. Very down today :(

[bobbinwales]

Your not making sense to me or worrying about things you cant control. You need a holiday.
Oops you can't? (Or may be can you in France??)
Focus on your games room ??

[emmie]

its just that this covid and the deaths that have happened, the many many thousands are awful, the fact is if one sticks to the main laws, then one can likely get through this, but its the fools who put other people's lives at risk by not adhering to them. If we can get as many people vaccinated as possible, then we have a chance of beating this virus - or at least make it possible for people to have some sort of normal life. Having covid 19 isn't a lifestyle choice, the deaths from it are horrendous, and seeing people in hospital with it is a salutary lesson we must all try and abide by the law for the time being.

[andy-hughes]

The difference between Covid the lifestyle choices you observe to make your comparison is this -

Eating and drinking are concious acts by the individual who has (in theory at least) control over what they choose to put in their body.

Covid is a virus and spreads indiscriminately throughout the world with often fatal consequences.

People catching a virus have no choice about whether or not they are infected, so it cannot be a 'lifestyle choice' either from people who infected unknowingly, or people who knowingly take the risk of infecting strangers.

That cannot be considered a choice of any measure, 'lifestyle' or otherwise.

[margarettom]

I think to simplify it you could say - if you get or go into hospital with cancer, you are the only one who may die. If you get or go into hospital with Covid, you may infect others and they might die. So the life style choice has been taken away, wherever possible.
PS. Sorry it is getting you down but, rest assured, you are only one of many totally fed up.

[dave50]

Having fun is actually mostly illegal now, we are only allowed to exist in a constant state of gloom.