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[QUOTE="superjohn, post: 3525669, member: 1522"]
Amen, thank you for this.  You get it. I'm not picking on Methodology's post as he may just be talking about we can't have crowds at games until a vaccine.  I disagree with this but there are people on this board and all over tv media, print media, and social media saying we can't return to life until there's a vaccine and they are shutting down debate by calling people selfish for saying we can't continue on much longer like this.

This argument that a nuanced discussion about opening things back up means you're choosing money over lives drives me nuts.  It's a non-starter, all it does is end debate.  It's pretending that the economic strife that comes along with a very long lockdown doesn't also cost lives.  It's pretending that many months of being locked down doesn't raise depression, alcoholism and drug use, domestic violence, suicides, poor kids (especially inner city black and brown) being left behind educationally etc.  Poverty equals more death.

France and Italy are at 50% unemployment, the US lost something like 25 million jobs in a little over a month.  To pretend the people who are talking about opening things back up are selfish is just so wrong.
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