I think you overestimate this imaginary “need” to go to restaurants and get haircuts.
It’s about going to work and earning a wage and in some cases, saving their livelihood hood because they’re business owners.
The potential (I stress potential) deaths from COVID are extremely minute to the millions of people (or 10’s of millions)that may no longer be able to care for themselves/put in bankruptcy over those “potential” deaths.
As seen, the amount of deaths actually attributed to COVID I saw constantly being changed based on the false reporting.
Well at least 70,000 people are dead as of today, probably more, that number isn’t really slowing down and won’t as the country begins to open back up rapidly.
We took a look around and said we have to put Meemaw, Papaw and those pesky young people recovering from cancer in the dirt by the thousands to save Dairy Queen and Hobby Lobby.
More people died in six weeks than in all of the Vietnam War.
It’s a service economy. It can’t function even in the short term without people going out serving or being served.
Grocery stores are essential, they’re open. Farmers are working. The logistics systems in between are working. Essential businesses have never closed and the economy still ate shit. We don’t make anything anymore. We aren’t an innovation based or manufacturing based economy anymore.
Hospitals are struggling because it turns out they can’t survive on actually doing what they are supposed to do which is treat sick people and save lives. If Randy and Carol aren’t coming in for their yearly colonic that is marked up 800% the healthcare industry can’t survive as is.
So rather than radically change things and try to move towards an economy that is more stable and better serves needs over the wants of people in this country we have to push the mass poor and working class people into a Bataan death march to serve Karens their coffee so the floor doesn’t completely fall out from the economy.
I’m just wondering what level of mass death the American people are willing to accept to number one, preserve their political identity and number two ensure that nothing has to fundamentally change about how we go about our daily lives.
I’d like to see a number. A quarter million dead? Civil War level deaths? Is that acceptable?
We’ve already written off the population of Neyland Stadium or a small American city as basically viral bullet sponges for this economy.
The government and media has done a fantastic job normalizing all of this though. You have to give them credit for that.
If you could rewind to Thanksgiving 2019 and someone tells you that by June next year at least 100k people will be dead you wouldn’t believe them.
“We will be seeing the equivalent of a 9/11 every day in this country by next summer”
You wouldn’t believe them.