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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Open!!! Approximately 500 dead in VA and 500,000 unemployed. Just think about that. [/quote]

What's the going exchange rate between temporary unemployment and death?[/quote]

Do we ban driving because 40,000 Americans die in traffic accidents each and every year? No, we mitigate risk through safety standards, traffic laws and speed limits. The strategy for COVID is mitigation and to flatten the curve. The goal isn’t, and never was, to keep anyone from getting the virus or (very unfortunately) dying. We have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve. [/quote]

None of that is an argument in favor of opening up though. We've sacrificed a lot to mitigate this and it still has already killed at minimum more than a years worth of traffic fatalities.[/quote]

Of course it is! What about the 650,000 Americans who die each and every year from heart disease, which is many, many more than will of COVID in 2020. Should we issue a federal mandate that everyone MUST exercise? Maintain a healthy weight? Should we ban all restaurants from serving unhealthy meals, because these are all risk factors that contribute to the development of heart disease. Of course not. Life in this country is not managed that way. [/quote]

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