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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I THINK the OP was suggesting to just bite the bullet, let the chips fall where they may and save the economy.
I don't think it is that simple.
I think we are going to face the largest economic depression the world has ever seen no matter what we do.
I think the president was thinking along these lines when he suggested earlier that we should "go back to work" in April. I don't know what changed his mind.
Some people think, why just not let people die, the most endangered are close to dying of natural causes anyway.
It could be some kind of awful "natural selection" or it could be an awful experiment gone terribly wrong and it could be someone planned on purpose to destroy just America? I don't think so personally, but there is plenty of fuel for those fires if you read this forum or listen to many opinions.
I think the human race has something that is stronger than allowing people to die from disease if they can do anything to not let that happen.
What do you think?
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I think this planet is a death trap. Nobody has ever gotten out of here alive. Most of us today die of diseases that were rare causes of death prior to the 20th century. The only reason we are not panicking over them is that their growth has been slow.
I think most people who are alive today, including myself, haven't had to face any serious calamities. I grew up on stories from my grandparents. All four were born in 1906 and 1907. They lived through the spanish flu epidemic, two world wars and the great depression. They lost friends and relatives to small pox, polio, tuberculosis and measles. Two of them were born here. Two of them immigrated here for the hope of a better life than they had in post-WWI Europe. They lived frugally, loved deeply and gave charitably.
I wonder how our ancestors would react to this. Would they have rushed to put tens of millions of people out of work before knowing how many lives, if any, might be saved? The drastic measures we have taken will flatten the curve, not eliminate it. People will get sick, some will die...over a longer period of time. Hospitals won't be overwhelmed, but millions of families may be thrown into poverty. We will probably never know the number of lives we are saving, but we will be paying the cost of it for generations.