With teck why can't people just video chat for Christmas an new years during covid?

[MrOracle]

The risks of COVID - even if you get it - are quite small, and life is full of risks. For many people, the rewards of living a rich life and sharing it with loved ones is far more important than the minor risk that COVID brings.

Consider the risk that people took to get on a ship to come from Europe to the New
World. Somewhere around 12-14% of ships were lost at sea, and the overall chances of surviving 5 years in the New World from the time you left Europe was less than 70%. Yet people still came. Americans are descended from people who have faced great risks in order for the chance at great rewards, and many of us have no intention of letting the government tell us what to do. We don't need their help making decisions on how to live our lives.

[NamerOfStars]

Because staring at a screen is no substitute for human contact. Because we're not robots. And because they realize this pandemic won't end until we reach herd immunity, and that's never going to happen unless some of us put aside our selfishness and cowardice and risk the disease.

[JuliaStyles]

Because they let themselves go as they are not leaving the house so they don't want anyone to see them in their worst light.

[Gwenhwyfar]

That’s a really good question. I guess cause touch and human contact are important.

[Solstice777]

Because it is a 100% complete hoax and nobody died but people with flu and pneumonia on ventilators. The vents killed them. It is a complete power grab by the world leaders. Not about a virus at all so fuck them and their restrictions.

[hellacray]

You can I know some people that are doing that.

[legalboxers]

they choose not to