You are corrupting another thread with a pretty myopic take on the pandemic and its varied consequences. You insist that people affirmatively state that, by wanting to open the economy and not bankrupt small and large businesses alike, preserve the widespread availability of air travel, preserve an economy that funds medical research and on-demand care, not add trillions upon trillions of dollars to the national debt that will be the responsibility of those of us who are younger than 60, that they believe it is worth killing old people in order to open up. See the attached. Are you prepared to accept that you want children abused in greater numbers in order to protect yourself and other elderly people from this virus? What about spousal abuse? Cancer deaths? Suicides? If we are going to play the moral hazard game, step right up and take your own seat as well. If you are not prepared to state that you want more children beaten, depressed people to kill themselves, cancer patients to die and livelihoods destroyed to avoid more older people getting sick, then maybe you should shut-up. And if you are, then maybe you should spend some time reflecting about what kind of person you are at this point. Older people sheltering in place and otherwise following safety guidelines have a chance to keep themselves safe Forcing all people to shelter in place is certainly resulting in more kids getting beaten to the point of hospitalization and other sick people dying in greater numbers. There can be more than one bad outcome from this and your disregard of the real and escalating consequences to others makes you exactly the selfish jerk that you are seeing in so many others.
Those of us who live in Southern CA (and even more so in outskirts like IE, OC, SB, etc. are being spared the dire conditions for our city dwelling brothers and sisters...never in their own car, instead packed into a train or bus. Do you walk up 5 flights of a dank stairwell to get to your apartment? Or do you climb into the elevator cab, hit the button with the back of a knuckle in some hope of diminishing the chance of virus transfer? Other side of the same coin, are the cupboards bare due to job lost while you look around your community and count an infection rate of .002 % or listen to someone you respect say that a percentage of those dying from Covid would have died anyway within the next few months...
All perspective. We gotta suck it up and cut each other some slack. Especially since presumably all of us on this forum are a Community that’s bound together by the common cause of soccer and our sons and daughters.
