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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
In America (and probably Europe) everyone is trying to have it both ways. Stay safe while acting like everything is normal so business and profits can continue. When the truth is if EVERYONE just SHUT DOWN for 4-6 weeks, no leaving their homes and Gov't paid workers/businesses during this period, 95% of this insanity would be over.
But nope. Carry on like mindless children hamsters running endlessly to keep the pennies coming in. Sick (pun intended).
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Unless you shut literally everything, how does that work? How do you get food picked/prepared/delivered/stocked in stores that need staff from security to cleaners to shelf stackers to checkout operators to trolley collectors, and the people who need to go and dig the electricity up and pipe it around, or the drivers who need vehicles serviced, fuelled, and the infrastructure around fuel itself? And the phone companies? water companies? ISPs/internet infrastructure?
And that's just a tiny, tiny, tiny piece of the ecosystem.
It isn't the small percentage of people who yes, do ignore ALL rules, anymore than there is carnage on the roads because a minority are drunk, or drugged, or women (j/k!!), or
ignore speed limits. It's because there are millions here, and tens of millions in the US, who are mixing because infrastructure and supply chains are vital... look at new orleans I think it was a few years back? That was 4 days without infrastructure iirc, though I may be well off on that. 4 -6 weeks of that? Hmmm.
Blaming the tiny % who don't stick to social distancing is laughable.