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Covidiots | IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DISOBEY THE 'STAY AT HOME' ORDERS THAN BE MY GUEST. JUST HAVE THE COURTESY NOT TO STEAL PRECIOUS HOSPITAL SPACE AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO EITHER TOOK THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS OR HAD NO OTHER CHOICE. | image tagged in coronavirus,covid-19,donald trump | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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Shameless fear-mongering, imo, Prager.

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.
2 ups, 6y
Pfft.

Our society has the wealth to weather this out for awhile, and Congress and the Federal Reserve are responding appropriately with economic relief that is by and large well-targeted.

Yes, it's a balancing act, and we can't endure a shutdown indefinitely. Our policymakers realize that. But folks aren't starving on the streets en masse because they can't get to work.

45,000+ deaths from Covid-19 and counting: vs. how many have died from the economic slowdown?

And I have news for you: opening too early would devastate our economy, too.
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I wonder if you apply your standard equally...lets see.

Its established science that gay men who engage in unprotected sex are at higher risk of contracting AIDS. Would you be willing to tell gay men who have sex and contact AIDS during this time to "have the courtesy to not take away "precious hospital space"?
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IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DISOBEY THE 'STAY AT HOME' ORDERS THAN BE MY GUEST. JUST HAVE THE COURTESY NOT TO STEAL PRECIOUS HOSPITAL SPACE AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO EITHER TOOK THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS OR HAD NO OTHER CHOICE.