"The slope of the curve is not decreasing" What curve are you talking about?
Just another ignorant meme that in effect, says nothing.
Also, in typical snowflake style, ignore the studies from Stanford, USC, and the one in New York, that shows the infection rate may be WAAAAAY higher than your comrades in the media want you to believe.
Now here's some math for you, little HCW. More infections with relatively the same rate of deaths, means a WAAAAAY lower mortality rate.
Your meme ignores the very real suffering, and even deaths, of those adhering to the shutdown. We hear people justify it by starting their sentences with something like "if it even saves even one life...", but any reasonable person knows that's all crap. If we took that approach seriously, we'd all be driving down the highway at 15 mph, because it would save thousands of lives every year.
We're hypocrites to not put this in perspective and admit that we, as a culture and a society, have made many decisions in which we trade human lives for the perceived greater good.
What if, when it's all said and done, the number of lives lost due to the shutdown, exceeds the number of lives that would have been lost had we done nothing more about the virus than isolate those at risk, employ social distancing, engage in regular hand washing, and advocated for common sense things like not touching our own faces?
At some point, we have to consider our country as a whole, and get it up and running. The loss of human life is likely already very real due to this shutdown. The loss of human livelihoods is provably real.
Livelihood: a means of securing the necessities of life.
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