thats not that many
Seriously, this.
So long as lifting restrictions is going to cause mass-excess deaths, then the lockdowns are necessary. Until the virus is eradicated or has mutated into sufficiently less-lethal variant, the pandemic will continue.
"Accepting reality" and killing tens of thousands of people is not a good idea.
If we were in a nation of 300,000 people. thousands of people would be a big ratio.
But we're in a nation of 300,000,000.
So given that ratio, tens of thousands of lives is not worth ruining 300,000,000.
We're throwing away everything else to stop an act of nature at best, or an act of terrorism at worst.
We seriously can't keep this up, because it won't EVER go away unless we start crossing some serious no-no lines. Australia is doing that, and I guess that brings us to the question.
Are you going to be in favor of authoritarian means because the ends justify it?
It all is about balancing the pros and cons of the restrictions, and until lifting the restrictions won't cause more damage than they prevent they must remain in place.
Because it seems like, given this statement, you are.
And if you are, you're a fascist.
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