Snoopy said:
Dude imagine the hundreds of millions of people losing everything and possibly going homeless. Not to mention the suicides, anxiety, heart attacks from financial stress, and death from the increase in criminal activities, ect. Whether you like it or not, the economy has a bigger impact on people lives than the coronavirus. |
I love this argument. Arguing that stress from not being able to work will kill so many people from suicides and an increase in stress related conditions, but completely ignoring the stress from continuing to work in the middle of a pandemic. Ask any essential worker just how relaxed they've been over the last couple months, and I promise you that this has not been a walk in the park for us. It would be much worse were the government to openly support using us as cannon fodder, killing hundreds of thousands more.
Then you go on to say that the economy has a bigger impact on people's lives than the coronavirus, which too looks at the negative economic impact of a lockdown in which 100,000 people still die, while ignoring the negative economic impact of avoiding a lockdown causing a significant amount of increased deaths. Unless you are literally forcing people to work, I would wager you would have a lot of businesses shutting down, failing and workers refusing to show over a much greater period of time. Without the expanded safety nets which have been put into place, this would have been much more difficult to move forward from.
Your sociopathic writhing is not only murderous and vile, but it is unlikely to have a positive effect on the economy. The best course of action for the economy would have been leaning much harder into the lockdown and doing it sooner, so we could have cut this off at its roots before it became a nationwide disaster, and opened up more quickly.
