Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[EricHiggin]

haxxiy said:

SpokenTruth said:
I've made a simple maxim:

You can always bring an economy back to life with people.
You can never bring people back to life.
And you can not bring back to life an economy with dead people.

Those who refuse to accept the realities of this pandemic are equally responsible for its prevalence. They care not until that which they care for is not. Then there is not the extent for which they will blame for which is not themselves.

Well, do consider the state our world is in, and replace "people" for "planet" in your maxim.

Then you'll see the political and sociological likelihood of further lockdowns etc.

It works for a lot of things, really. To care about child famine in Yemen, or manufacturers using slave labor in China to make my consoles? What's wrong with you?

There's certainly truth to the maxim, but the statement is only solid in a bubble.

Weakening or 'losing' an economy due to a Covid influenced lock down, leads to non Covid related negatives, like deaths. Are those people simply viewed as collateral damage? If so, then who get's to choose who's considered collateral damage? Who's undeniably right or wrong?

One way or another some amount of people are suffering and dying because of this, but it's who get's to choose and who benefits or pays the price.

There's no simple right or wrong answer here. It all depends on your point of view based on what information is available, solid or questionable.

Without plenty of irrefutable facts, or absolute knowledge of the future, no decision can easily be highly agreed upon by the masses in the scenario we're in.

Those who refuse to accept the reality of the present political leadership are equally responsible for it's...

It either goes both ways or isn't true for either statement.