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My point was to respond to your "what if there's never a vaccine? Will we hide in our homes forever?" There's a middle ground between "no attempt made to miti
by jlebar 6y ago
My point was to respond to your "what if there's never a vaccine? Will we hide in our homes forever?"
There's a middle ground between "no attempt made to mitigate the loss of human life" and "safe and effective vaccine readily available". We can and should be doing more.
It's also not too late to do more.
But instead, we seem to be adopting the nihilism that I read in your original post, that, (in a few ways) time's up.
- twblalock 6y agoI'm not advocating that we just forget about the virus. We are doing what we can to mitigate loss of life. There are social distancing policies for businesses, people are wearing masks, etc. -- but businesses are reopening.
- jlebar 6y ago> We are doing what we can to mitigate loss of life. Some individuals/business-owners doing what they can to mitigate loss of life caused by the reopening of their businesses, yes. Some people are wearing masks. This is by no means universal. You don't have to go far to see videos from Vegas, or of airlines not enforcing their own mask policies. And also, as a society we absolutely are not doing what we can to mitigate loss of life even within the parameters of a fixed amount of economic activity.