caketastydelish
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To which the government should respond "Your grandpa was going to die anyway, if not from this then from something else. We can't condemn millions of others to poverty by shutting down society in a way that could crush us economically for who knows how many years after this is over just to save people who are at the end of their lives anyway."
That's another thing people are failing to see. The issue with workers isn't just about getting paid while they aren't working, it's about shutting down everything sparking another recession. And what happens during recessions? People lose their jobs to layoffs. The government needs to start looking at the consequences of what they are doing and see if the secondary effects of their actions are going to be worse than the virus they are trying to contain.
I want to also point out that a lot of the people freaking out in this thread are the exact same people who have routinely complained about government shortsightedness in the past, yet now fail to see the shortsightedness in the current response to this virus.
I usually agree with your politics, Commy, but YOU are the one who is shortsighted here. The entire world is (and should be) taking this seriously, not just the Trump administration. People getting an illness so bad it’s even worse than getting the flu would be catastrophic if it affected a significant minority of the general population, even most of them didn’t die from it.
Theres a shortage of healthcare staff/hospitals/ resources/ things people need like disinfectant and toilet paper as it is. Not even trying to contain it will only make the problem 10 times worse. Italy is having so many problems even with the fact that they are taking it so seriously. Imagine how much worse it would be if they didn’t. I don’t want us to end up like that. I don’t want to get this disease even if I don’t die from it. Do you ?