[tracer4201]

I don’t agree with this perspective. The cost of keeping bars open, for instance, is much higher on society as a whole because of how it would lead to the virus spreading. I don’t see how that makes the public responsible to help these businesses.

When your business does well, you reap the benefits, not me. The belief is you’re entitled to it, because you’re the one who took the risk. So how is it now that we allow you to risk public safety or otherwise we take on the risk and give you grants or cheap loans?

[AnimalMuppet]

Sure, but if I own a bar, and I shut it down as part of stopping the plague, and the plague stops but I go bankrupt, you reap the benefit, not me.