FairestOfThemAll37
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2013
So ... you’re demanding that these various businesses open up and serve you regardless of the potential consequences to the employees or other patrons of those businesses. In other words, those employees are expendable, because as you‘ve said, the herd is going to be culled no matter what. You really don’t care who gets sick, or who gets complications, or who dies ... the most important thing is that these places open up pronto and serve YOU. As long as you’re taken care of, no one else really matters do they?
You’re the second person to make a comment about “demanding” business open up. Where has that happened? I’m only awar of businesses being allowed to re-open. Many salons, retail stores, and restaurants have chosen to remain closed (or have already gone out of business from the shut down) despite being able to open.
I don’t think it’s legal to force a business to operate. If a business chooses to open as allowed by the state, why shouldn’t people patronize it if they feel comfortable doing so? Are we to assume nobody wants to risk going back to work and they need to be protected by not using and business or services? Until when? If businesses stay closed or have no customers they’ll have to close permanently. There’s not enough money to keep everybody in business (Unemployment will go bankrupt as well unless the Fed just keeps printing more money) for the next 6 months or years.
The idea of waiting until “it’s safer” is really nebulous. When states show steady numbers despite reopening people cry foul and say the numbers are a conspiracy.
There are certainly people out there acting like fools IMO and not following guidelines, but there’s definitely the other extreme where a group is fighting to keep anything from opening (or if open, shaming people for using the services).
This shift of keeping hospitals from being overrun to everybody staying in until this thing burns out or there’s a cure is really scary. I know it’s the source of a lot of conflict on the internet and it’s becoming apparent in real life as more and more opens. That’s clear just from this thread. Multiple people have commented on how selfish it is to go get a haircut or do anything not necessary for basic survival.
Even the medical experts have said we can’t keep the lockdown going indefinitely.