Full upvote for what it is worth.
Yes, this whole thing is an absolute disaster. The majority of people go along with it because they (for now) have a job and don't have to worry about keeping the doors of a business open. They scream at people for putting the world in danger for wanting a loosening of restrictions, yet forget, that somehow the products they consume, have to be made. Having been self-employed for over 20 years, I know all too well the chain reaction of people / businesses not being able to pay their bills. It affects others upstream. On such a large scale as this, it is a slow blood poisoning for the economy.
"How can you put money over lives?!!!"
Well, tell me, where is the food going to come from, and all of the other things people buy?
In Austria and Germany at the start of the lockdown, they had to put out an emergency call for workers to work on the farms, because the two countries are heavily reliant up on foreign workers... who could no longer enter the country due to border closures.
There's a point where life has to go on regardless of what the "emergency" is, or it ceases to go on.
Thanks!
and yes, I'm on board with everything you said, and how you said it. I think people say "How can you put money over lives?!!!" neglect to realize that "money" is an abstract concept and what we are talking about IS "lives" as is "life" as in living it as best and safely as possible within reason. Mother nature is not going to stop trying to kill us...until it inevitably wins. So, as you point out, there comes a point at which we've eliminated as much risk as we reasonably can and life has to go on.
For me that point was several months ago, but I am less cautious than some...and have a keen awareness that every day that peals off the calendar is a day that you NEVER get back, it is just gone...forever.
You might appreciate the humour in this then. He even drops the name COVID.
Living in the coffin of our comfort zone.