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[quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]The virus has killed a lot of old people in nursing homes who didnt have a lot longer to live anyway.[/b]  Car accidents, on the other hand, kill young people in the prime of their lives.[/quote]

Stop.  This whole "only the oldest die of Covid-19" is bullshit and wrong.  YES, more elderly will die.  BUT there have been PLENTY of healthy people ages 20-50 years of age who have died.  Teens have died.  A healthy 27 year old who was on his way to being a WORLD CLASS researcher who might have cured cancer or Covid-19 or done some other wonderful thing died of coronavirus just last week.  A 30 year old public school teacher from NYC died.  Lots of younger people have died.  Stop talking about this disease like it's "just the old ones who die, so who cares?"

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