• Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world
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    At one point people couldn’t even go to a sporting event without one. Now it’s, “Just kidding.”. Idiots

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      I wasn’t allowed to eat in the food court at the mall with my daughter and we both had ours.

      But because I don’t carry my government issued ID with me at all times (I have my vaccination stuff in my iOS wallet and my daughters in a PDF and pay for shit using my watch) the security guards wouldn’t let us sit down to eat.

      It was perfectly fine for us to sit on a bench in the mall and eat though. It was perfectly fine for us to stand in line to buy food, too.

      Just not good enough to present a vaccination card without a government issued photo ID to sit in the food court. I don’t know how the security guards expected me to have a government issued photo ID for my daughter though, maybe that was just a requirement for people 18+

      So ridiculous.

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        “These policies could have saved hundreds of lives but it inconvenienced me a tiny bit so I will not stand for it!”

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          If you think government overreach during covid ‘inconvenienced’ people a ‘tiny bit’ you’re crazy.

          My wife lost her job 3x, 3 different jobs, all because the government kept shutting down businesses.

          Even my barber lost his business, I donated to a go fund me he put up to try to save it, but it wasn’t enough.

          Because he stepped out in his own and took the risk of starting his own business (dude had 5 kids and he and his wife both ran the barbershop together) but hadn’t been in business for two years or whatever, the government shut him down and didn’t pay him anything.

          He still had to pay rent on the space though, he still had to pay his loans to get the business up and running. I hope he’s recovered somewhat financially from that, but he never returned to that business.

          Maybe he killed himself, I sure hope not, but people surely did.

          So no, government overreach didn’t ‘inconvenience’ people ‘a little bit’

          It hurt a lot of people.

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            And yet you were complaining about eating on a bench rather than a table because you forgot your ID. No lockdowns, no shuttered businesses, just you eating in a less comfortable place than you could have eaten if you’d carried your license.

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              If that’s your take you missed his point.

              His point was obviously that’s it’s stupid that he couldn’t eat in the food court but could eat at a bench in the exact same mall.

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                Did you not read any other post in this thread? Someone made fun of him for being inconvenienced for what he saw as a silly requirement and he countered with business owners committing suicide for shuttered businesses during lockdowns, notably not the restriction he was complaining about.

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                The point is that they’re lying and that story never happened. We literally all got haircuts during COVID. I don’t know if maybe this person lives in a bubble where these lies are propagated and unchallenged or something, but I very clearly remember two years ago, when the government wasn’t raiding barbershops.

                I’ve met these people in real life. They’ve told these lies so many times in their echo chamber, they get confused when normal people call out their bullshit.

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                  My barber, my small town famous bakery and at least one restaurant in town all went out of business.

                  There is nothing hyperbolic or untruthful about what I said.

                  I didn’t say that ALL barbers went out of business, or ALL bakeries either.

                  But mine did. I even posted a link to the stats in Canada for small businesses closing forever due to the governments restrictions.

                  Grow up

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            C’mon man. Why do you have to lie like this? Everyone has a barber that didn’t go out of business, so we obviously know they survived. Do you see an epidemic of long haired people walking around searching for their missing hair salons?

            All these small businesses could get PPP loans to pay their salaries. These loans were forgiven as well; fucking free money for every small barber. In fact, it was so easy to get this money plenty of people claimed to be “barbers” and defrauded the program. All you had to do is sign up for it. No proof was needed.

            If your guy went out of business with free money coming in, he’s pretty bad at business.

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            I think most rational people understand it was more than an inconvenience. But weighed against the fact that some areas literally had to bring in refrigerated semi trailers to store dead bodies because there wasn’t anywhere else to put them, and how much worse it could have been without some restrictions, many people think it was a reasonable temporary trade-off.

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            deadly virus shows up

            “Gotta be the deep state plan to ruin us!”

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              Nope, just governmental incompetence as usual.

              No conspiracy needed. Government is simply incompetent. Which is why you shouldn’t have them making decision that effect your life as much as we allowed them to during covid.

              But lemmy users just love to put big daddy government in charge of everything they can think of. Idiots

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            The thing is, ten years from now, people are going to actually believe your lies. That’s the scary part. These days? We all know the government didn’t shut down your barber, grow the fuck up.

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              Honestly, you don’t know shit. And I don’t even think you believe the stuff you’re saying.

              The only other explanation is that you’re a child, which is probably also true.

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        So we are just making shit up now?

        I swear you people forget that we all lived through this shit too. It wasn’t that long ago.