Originally Posted by
Keiran Newberry
That trade-off is different for everyone - I expressed an opinion on Facebook of all places that we were going to have to open up again (in the UK) at some point relatively soon and allow this to become an acceptable risk, much like flu and I was met with a lot of reactionary vitriol.
The general public seem to think that money and the economy doesn't matter and we could survive a global depression to save a few thousand lives. Every life lost is a tragedy, but how many would lose theirs in the midst of a depression....
The difficulty is of course defining that point. There will be a lot of reactionary anger if and when things are relaxed and a second spike on cases occurs. This global stoppage can't go on forever, and can't happen every few months. No matter what Joe Public thinks
+1. The herd mentality has become very scary to me we need to have educated discussions rather than shaming and counter reactions like what is happening in Michigan right now. Tumultuous times, things could go off the rails fast.
My point to those with the vitriol is where were you last year? Masses advocating spending billions/trillions to save the lives of thousands of elderly with a few years/months to live. I didn't hear you advocating spending billions/trillions to save millions of lives of children and young people in the 3rd world? Do their lives not matter? Edit: Perhaps this is hypocritical of myself and this is itself too reactionary/inflammatory, but we do need to be able to get through to people that there is more than one perspective on the situation somehow.