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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Here is what doesn't make sense......

Grocery stores are open, as they should be.  Most grocery stores have narrow aisles.  Keeping 6 feet from everyone is tough to do.  But, we make it work by wearing masks and being careful not to touch our faces.

Yet, stories like Hobby Lobby must remain shut because they are deemed "non essential."  The Hobby Lobby in my area is huge.  The aisles are large.  It doesn't get nearly as crowded as hardware stores or grocery stores in the area.

In many businesses, it is much easier to maintain social distancing than in businesses that are allowed to remain open.

This is just lunacy.  [/quote]

It is simple math. Coronavirus will spread to a certain number of people during grocery store visits -- masks and social distancing only goe so far and are not a perfect defense.[b] So, grocery shopping will result in X number of illnesses, but because we have to eat, we take that risk[/b]. If shopping at Hobby Lobby also resulted in X illnesses, we would have 2X instead of X illnesses. Multiply the by however more businesses think they should reopen.

Also, I don't think the Hobby Lobby case is helped by the founder initially choosing to stay open because God had talked to his wife and told them they would be protected. Then the company defied orders to close in several states. 
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Jeff, what you have said here mirrors the exact thinking of people such as myself who feel that we have gone too far with this shut down.  That because we have to eat, we have to accept X number of illnesses (meaning deaths), and need to take that risk.  I think the main difference between your thinking and mine is that you don't think the overall economic devastation from shutting down will be as great as what I think it will be.  [/quote]

We can address the economic issues but there is no solution to death. Economic problems are not permanent, death is. Moreover, if we reopen prematurely we will continue to have economic problems due to widespread disease outbreaks. Reopening does not make coronavirus go away. Things would just end up shutting down again unless the conditions are in place to stop the spread.

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