And Texas Caves In

way2roll wrote:

ExxWhy wrote:
Maybe some of you don't realize that large portions of the economy are still working. It's not just a few meatpacking plants. Think about this.

About 155 million people were employed in the US just prior to the shutdown. There have been 22 million unemployment claims. Let's guess there are an equal number of self employed out. If you reject that number, we'll use your number. So 44 million out of work, that means 111 million are still working! Many are working from home. Even at that, there are still millions of people out working. Will adding some percentage of workers back into the mix really overwhelm the medical system?

To an already overwhelmed medical system? Yes. Exponential contraction is how contagions work and why quarantining is the proven method to slow it down. Is your thought a conspiracy that our scientists and governments want a shutdown for some political or monetary reason and not for health and safety and the ability for hospitals to keep up? And it's not just our own country, all countries are following pandemic protocol to slow the spread. Do you think this is all a hoax, that hospitals really aren't overrun and that releasing quarantines wouldn't cause a spike in cases and more deaths? And what politician would want that blood on their hands? And what workers do we allow to go back to work? Is there a hierarchy on safety or importance? Or a random percentage like a lottery? Is this by State?

way2exaggerate

Keeping the country on lockdown is going to create hardship, health problems, and even death for other people. Do you not care about them? Is it moral to cause harm to one group of innocent people to try to protect another group of people? To me it doesn't matter the size of the groups. You can't justify an immoral action based on numbers.