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To be fair, the cost of COVID medical care pales in comparison to the likely impact on future earnings these shutdowns are having. If it's strictly about money

• beefalo 6y ago
  The future earnings of dead people is 0
• throwlaplace 6y ago
  >If it's strictly about money, we should cease shutdowns immediately. But, it's not. People are dying. it's not about money in my opinion and is about deaths. i could've said "everyone advocating for this has to lose a digit for every person that dies" but i thought people would downvote. guess i was wrong since they downvoted anyway.
  • luckylion 6y ago
    > it's not about money in my opinion and is about deaths Are you aware of the fact that people die every day to e.g. deliver groceries to your store, harvest plants, build houses etc pp? Do we shut down all activity that will lead to somebody somewhere losing their life?
    • throwlaplace 6y ago
      >deliver groceries to your store, harvest plants, build houses As I saw somewhere on Twitter: I didn't realize workplace deaths were contagious? I mean they are now but not how you meant it. >Do we shut down all activity that will lead to somebody somewhere losing their life? I think it's so funny that people don't know any history. In the early 20th century workers had almost no rights and labor activists had to argue for workplace safety that was controversial for the same reasons: economic inefficiency. So in a very real and exact sense yes we as a society have stopped certain activities because people were dying every day doing them.