09-16-2020, 11:15 PM
(09-16-2020, 10:31 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: It’s not unpopular. It’s uneducated. It’s impossible for you to have an informed opinion about whether we do or don’t need to wear mask if you don’t even know how they work.
Do you follow the recommendations of people who don’t know what they’re talking about?
All i'm saying is masks should be optional. If a business wants to require them for entry fine. If employers want to mandate them fine. Let the country open up, try to social distance if possible and wear a mask if required by the business/employer.
The ancillary harm of the lock downs is quite large and depending how long certain states stay locked down could potentially do more damage than Covid itself.
How about a suicide by a restaurant owner who lost everything because a state wants to stay locked down? And how does that death effect the persons entire family and how does that negatively impact other people and family members. How about all the employees who can't work there and over the years the number of people that may have worked there and the income it would have generated for their families. The restaurant could have been passed down through the family providing income and pride and employment for possibly decades.
How about all the kids in abusive homes under normal circumstances. Now they are stuck home possibly with an abusive parent/s who is even more pissed off and frustrated because they lost their job.
How about the crushing of our economy and the 10's and 10's of millions of people it will effect for years or decades to come. Potentially life savings gone, businesses ruined, lives ruined, psychological damage, kids abused, education lost, kids sports gone which are sometimes life savers for kids.
At what point do you say enough! Open up and work through Covid without lock downs. Millions of people are not dying and it does not appear anything remotely close to that is going to happen.
I don't care how uneducated, dumb, stupid, etc, etc you think my opinion is or I am. For all the smart people on here, I have yet to see ONE conversation about the glaring issue of the ancillary harms vs Covid itself.
200K deaths over 7 months of mostly elderly and elderly with comorbitities and 40%+ of that number is from nursing home deaths and a huge % of that 40+% is from just 2 states, NY and NJ!
Sorry, no way in hell you convince me we should be locked down. We need to open it all back up!
