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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 3528209, member: 55"] His underlying point is not stupid, whatever you think about his basketball posts. We can't be shutdown the way we are now for 18 months. The cost of that in lives and happiness is incalculable. Now, if it was stay at home or the human species would be dead we'd deal with it, but that is not the case. Part of the "turning of the dimmer" is going to be that there is some, generally manageable risk, of participating in rejoining a society, and keeping those who are most likely to lose their lives if they catch the virus in more of a lockdown state than a healthy 32 year old is a very rational part of the process. I'm 61, in good health but way overweight. I might choose to stay away from the Rent after the time that they open it and, if I was 30, I wouldn't think twice. But we can't keep everything shut indefinitely just because it's unfair that, if we fully reopen, my sons can go to a game and I can't. [/QUOTE]