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Again, I will redirect you to this well stated argument that illustrates how low risk the store owners and service providers really are: https://news.ycombinat

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  The crux of that argument is that people would be dying anyway; the response to the argument clarifies that 100,000-+200,000+ additional deaths is worth adjusting behavior to abate (especially since those are the numbers with adjustment; the R0-value on the disease was high enough that it was on track to become another Spanish Flu without mitigation). I have relatives who were old enough to remember the Spanish Flu. Spanish Flu was enough to mean that every family you ask from that era had someone who died of that flu. That, qualitatively, sticks with people. It becomes a stain on the memory of a generation. It is the kind of fate we form governments to avoid. We can't conquer death, but we can mitigate COVID so that it's not another Spanish Flu. And people want that. In general, people want to avoid having a generation where everyone knows a relative who died from COVID. "Well, people die of something, so..." isn't an acceptable response to people.