re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People should be staying the fuck home. And if they do go places, then not to where they might have to be rescued if they get stranded.

No argument from me on that score. But I guess I’m coming from a much different perspective. Outdoor recreation in the backcountry is a sublime form of social distancing, and the residents of Telluride got after it, there were no doubt hundreds of people skiing in the backcountry the day of the accident. Accidents happen. These guys were experienced and well-equipped. In hindsight it was very stupid and put a lot of people in danger, not so much the rescue operation, those happen all the time in the backcountry, but the virus. This is all something no human has ever experienced save for the really old people who were children in 1918. It was a shitty mistake, but I’m not going to pillory the parties involved because I know deep down the desire to do such things.

Or, I’m talking out of my ass and need to shut the fuck up and we need to put the victim up to a firing squad.