| Your argument is absolutely a strawman. You are not making your argument in good faith and assume that people just want to let people die so they are not inconvenienced. You should read the real arguments people who want to open actually make. Here are few examples that show that it may actually be better for (some) people to go back to work. 1. People die from suicide, drug use and alcoholism all of which increase quite a bit when there are economic issues. Its not clear if more people will die from this or any increases that could come from reopening. Somebody dying form suicide isn't better or worse than dying from corona virus. 2. Even if people do not die from the above they quite possibly will have a lower life expectancy from having depression, using drugs and alcoholism so people will die sooner. If 10 people die 1 year earlier (from drugs, alcohol, etc) is it worse than 1 person dying 10 years earlier (from virus)? It is a toss up and up to debate. This is of course assuming that somebody wouldn't get the virus and die in quarantine but they would if they were not in quarantine. This is not a sure thing. The person is still going out to the grocery store and could get the virus there. Obviously quarantine is not stopping everybody from getting it. 3. If somebody has the antibodies it appears like they will not get reinfected (at least until there are enough mutations so probably this season). If those with the antibodies go back to work there would be no increase in deaths. In fact it would quite possibly lower the number of deaths. 4. As far as I know there are no vaccines for any corona viruses. That could mean that this virus won't have a vaccine. The only way to stop it may be to build up herd immunity. This means we need people to get infected. Why not let the people who are least likely to die when they get it go back to work. |