I have felt for sometime that this is the choice we are going to have to make.
Eventually.
We cannot close down. We cannot stay closed indefinitely. We cannot continue to give money to people to stay home.
The future of our country is worth more than individual lives. And that includes my own.
I don’t have a death wish, I love life. I’m in one of those groups where are the Virus could be a serious thing for me.
But I think that sacrificing the future of our children, grandchildren, and their children So that some of us will be able to live right now simply is not right.
This is not the black death with a 40% mortality rate. If it were, I would feel differently about it.
But it isn’t. And I think we have to come to terms with this.
I have said before, that there is an analogy for this: in the Navy, there used to be a saying:
“A warship in a harbor is a safe ship, but that is not what warships are for.”
Likewise, a human cloistered in a sealed building as a hermit may (in some people’s minds) be a safe human, but that is not what we as humans are made for.
Totally with you on this.