Originally Posted by kiwifrequentflyer

Something I find ridiculous is this idea that oh, if we just open the doors and stop social distancing and let the virus filter through society and kill "the old and vulnerable" (why are ya'll getting so mad? Don't you see? You aren't in the old and vulnerable group so why are you so afraid?! So much fear! You have no empathy for the poor Africans dying of hunger! Why do you care about your older parents and friends recovering from cancer! Gosh! Hypocritical much?) that the economy would just restart.

Yeah, no. People aren't just going to return to their normal lives when a virus like this is wrecking havock. Past history and even Swedens economy has shown that actually, people don't just return to normal, because they don't want to put their friends and family's lives that do fall into that group at risk, and economies suffer REGARDLESS.

The question is, do you suffer with a huge loss of life, or do you suffer with less lives lost.

EDIT: Just to add to the ridiculous argument of "why don't ya'll care about the third world" just imagine if the first world countries didn't GAF about this virus and kept flying around the world and spreading it on their luxury vacations in poor countries. It would very much spread to THOSE countries, and kill people in much greater numbers that what we can even imagine as they aren't rich. So if you want to do the responsible thing for third world countries, stop flying and stay home.