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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People aren't upset because this is the worst thing that could possibly happen. Of course it's not. For many of us (myself included), the pandemic and isolation and school closures are not even close to the worst thing that has happened to me in my lifetime.

People are upset because there is absolutely no reason it has to be this way. We are keeping kids home from school while people gather in bars and restaurants and crowd into private parties and go on vacation. It is nonsensical. That's where the anger and frustration comes from -- the knowledge that we are asking children and working parents to shoulder the burden of this pandemic while refusing to ask almost anything of young professionals, the wealthy, or large businesses. It's a question of values. The appropriate comparison is not Nazi Germany (hi, this is almost never the appropriate comparison), but something more like Stalinist Russia where ordinary people suffered while those closest to the levers of power did not, all in the name of "shared sacrifice."[/quote]

Bars and restaurants are open b/c we don’t have federal aid. [b]Shutting them down will cause mass poetry[/b] and likely riots.

Just because some people are acting foolish and doing private parties and vacations doesn’t mean you double down on stupid and crowd kids back to school. 
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We certainly can't have those pesky poets running amok in the streets.....[/quote]

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