Calamityjane88 wrote:
Isn’t the question really about risk to others, not the risk to your parents? Each of us can assume risk to our own health without a lot of moral trouble. My 75 year old dad is currently getting altitude sickness and stumbling along a trail up granite peak in the Beartooth Mountains. My mom asked me if it was a good idea. I said, Yes! I told her she should go along too so that she can have fun and nurse my dad back to health after my brothers carry him down to camp on a make-shift stretcher. As far as I know, she went too. What an adventure!
If your parents will potentially spread covid to others during their adventures, that’s where the moral trouble is. I guess the type of adventure matters.
Thanks for your thoughts.
With my "f*** it" option, I was envisioning getting out and doing stuff as permitted. I wasn't thinking of brazenly taking risks or flaunting rules/laws/guidelines to the extent that others might be put at risk. Though, maybe that would be another, more extreme, option...
Right now, they're taking extreme precautions, above and beyond those recommended. If they went out and lived more or less normally (as allowed/recommended), I don't think they'd pose any more of a risk to others than anyone else going about their business.
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