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People work at that cafe and use their income to feed and house their families, and to provide them with healthcare. Don’t be dismissive of these concerns, the
by nostromo 7y ago
People work at that cafe and use their income to feed and house their families, and to provide them with healthcare.
Don’t be dismissive of these concerns, they are very real.
- applecrazy 7y agoWhich is exactly why social safety net programs exist and continue to function during these times. Not to mention the checks that will be mailed out to every taxpayer soon. We can and should essentially shut down the country
- 6nf 7y agoWe don't have a safety net that can feed the whole country. Some people still have to work to actually grow the food, do the distribution, and feed everyone. How is that going to happen if everyone sits at home for 2 months?
- madeofpalk 7y agoI partially own, while my parents run, a cafe that's pretty fucked. I'm incredibly aware of these concerns. I just think that health comes before economy. Without healthy people, you don't have an economy.
- 6nf 7y agoWhat about 97% healthy people. Is that sufficient for an economy?
- smallgovt 7y ago> I just think that health comes before economy. I don't think we can make such a blanket assertion. The US markets have lost 10T in value over the past month. If the virus infects 70% of the US population with a 2% mortality rate, 4.2M ppl will die. It's obviously not so simple, but we're sacrificing $2.4M in market cap per life saved. At some point, the tradeoff makes no sense in light of the fact that we could invest in life saving technologies/solutions that save more lives down the road.
- madeofpalk 7y agoAre you saying 4.2 million people should die?
- smallgovt 7y agoYes, I'm saying at some point we should make the choice between a lot of people dying now and even more people dying later.