[exDemMom]

This virus is not going away if we stay indoors hiding from it. What good will it do if we keep destroying the economy, the very engine we rely on to survive and thrive?

Really? If the virus is denied chances to spread, it will not go away? In what microbiology/infectious disease class did you learn THAT tidbit of information?

Have you stopped to consider that the economy would be pretty much destroyed if everyone got sick (with up to 7% of them dying)? And that the economic destruction caused by having the death rate so suddenly spike would not go away any time soon? Right now, we are making progress in controlling the virus, and it will actually go away if we keep it up. The economy will recover, since healthy people are eager to go back to work.

[HotHunt]

The older I get, the more I realize that all the stuff I used to think was SO important turned out not to be.

Same here.

[HotHunt]

Sweden did not have a lockdown. Experts predicted that it would have 40,000 COVID-19 deaths by May 1. The actual number was 2,769. And declining.

If masks work, why did businesses need to be closed down? And if they don't work, why are we being forced to wear them?

Conservatives want to go back to work so they can support their families and pay their bills.

Liberals want to stay locked down in their homes and have the government support their families and pay their bills Translation: the conservative taxpayers who have gone back to work.

Nothing has changed.