Life is risk. Everything you do or don't do carries a risk.

Walk to the grocery store? You risk death. Drive to the grocery store? You risk death. Don't go to the grocery store? You risk death.

Someday, you, me, and everyone both of us know will die. That's just reality. Life will move on, and eventually it won't move on. We'll reach a point where the entire planet is bathed in atomic fire as the sun changes from the yellow cycle to the red cycle. At some point long after that, entropy will reach 0 and all creation will be a homogenous cold void, with no variations in energy to allow for any sort of reaction.

There will be nobody to care. There is no God looking over us, we're a freak chemical reaction that happened to figure out it existed.

The decisions being made to prevent COVID deaths are causing other deaths, some senseless and tragic. Suicides are up. Drug overdoses are up. Domestic violence is up. The poorest people on earth are starving where they weren't starving prior to the pandemic and the ensuing global lockdowns. You don't need to crawl to the deepest darkest parts of the Internet to prove this, it's being reported by mainstream news sources. No matter what decision you make, you will have suffering and death.

What matters to me and to a lot of people is how we live each day. Fascists hate the idea of illness, of disease, of uncleanliness, but those are just facts of life. We should be free to choose how we live. We should be free to take or not take risks and reap the rewards or pay the consequences for those decisions. Sometimes we live blessed lives, sometimes we die tragically in the gutter, and at least in that case we got to choose for ourselves instead of having our fates forced upon us by people who imagine themselves our betters.