Ductape wrote:
Lantley wrote:
2oldman wrote:
Ductape wrote:
Put 100 people out of work and how many premature deaths result from that?
I hear that, but these are tough times requiring even tougher decisions. I know I wouldn't want to be making them.
Amazing how we think we are going to die if the rat race stops for a few months.
Easy to say for most of us, who are often retired and able to afford luxuries like an RV.
I guess you don’t know many of those average citizens that live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have the financial resources to even pay for a minor emergency of a few hundred dollars.
It’s a mistake to believe unemployment is hurting the wealthy. It’s the poor and the middle class with a big mortgage that will feel the pain.
Yes shutting down the rat race will cause hardships, but ultimately it will save lives as well. Yes a person living paycheck to paycheck will suffer more. However the shut down is about protecting a persons health not their finances. What's the point of having a A-1 portfolio if it means your entire family workplace or community has the virus?
Consider a person living paycheck to paycheck, a middle class wage earner or a millionaire none of them want to be on a ventilator
struggling to breathe. Or worse case, none of them want to be wishing they had a ventilator available to keep them alive.
Taking preventative measures to save lives is what the shut down is all about.
You can recover from financial disaster, many have done it. Recession or depression, Humanity has endured collapses of all kinds. In time things have always returned to normal. But you don't recover from death.
