This isn't as black and white as you make it out to be. The answer isn't so simple.
But let me just play the Devils advocate.
This argument of what if it's your father or your grandfather that gets it and dies. Yes that's the human cost.
But the same can be argued for when young children go to war fighting the NAZI's.
What if it's your son or your grandson that went off to die. Yes it's a tragity but you can't burry your head in the sand and hope the problem goes away.
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This persistent lock down which may save the few lives in the short term will have a huge ripple on effect with huge social and economic damage in the long term.
People lose their business. Close shops, lose jobs. This doesn't destroy lives?
Divorce rates up
Suicides rates up
Domestic violence up
Depression stress all up
Hell During this pandemic 1/3 of the world didn't even have enough food to eat
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https://apnews.com/article/business-...ee49723e30af32)
How many lives may not be lost directly to the virus. But the indirect human cost of these lock downs justified?
From suicides, robberies, domestic violence.
And sometimes it even comes out in different ways. Look at south affrica at the moment.
And what's the government's solution to this. Government overspending with stimulus.
what does this even mean??
This government spending isn't free money. Government can't print tv's and toliet paper and food. They're simply borrowing from it's population in the future to pay for it now. This Debt is put on the younger generation which will drastically affect the economy. Every dollar extra that gets taxed in the future to pay this debt is a dollar out of the economy.
The baby boomers in their lifetime has already enacted enough policies to rob the younger generation of so much wealth. This is just another Debt that's borrowed now, spent now and flipped to the next generation to pay off when you're all dead and gone.
Think about that before you start ripping on young people who want to go back to work and contribute to society.
When old people say what what if it's your dad or your grandfather. It is effectively saying our lives are more important than yours or your future quality of lives.
Yeah. You have a full life ahead of you. But hope you atleast appreciate that it's at the expense of the next generation.