The term 'reopen' is ambiguous. I haven't seen anybody serious argue for a pre-COVID reopening. There is an implicit and explicit understanding that re-opening

The term 'reopen' is ambiguous. I haven't seen anybody serious argue for a pre-COVID reopening. There is an implicit and explicit understanding that re-opening means "re-opening with social distancing, PPE availability and continual sheltering-in-place of at-risk groups". Even the re-openings in states like Georgia are re-openings with major strings attached that place a lot of restrictions on businesses. All that to me makes sense given that coronavirus pandemic is the new normal for the next year or two - a period of time in which we cannot simply shelter-in-place under a lockdown. I have noticed, however, a tendency to vilify those that even suggest an alternative to the current lockdown and a distortion of their positions (such as suggesting that those people care more about money than people, or that they are minimizing the severity of this pandemic). This virus is terrible and is taking a terrible toll on a lot of people as well as national healthcare systems and economies, but there are also people that purposely want to magnify the risks beyond what the data shows. That's not helping anyone either.