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As someone who had the bug and recovered.... these people that say this is no big deal are nuts. Even if you don’t end up on a ventilator it is horrifying. Getting your significant other sick is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Our world has changed, we can adjust quick or slow. The techy “libertarians” that wanna shake hands and go to a hackathons are nihilists and it sucks that those decisions are going to kill someone I know.

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With the current lockdowns in place, the other problem of mass starvation is eventually going to crop up, though before that happens it will be crowds with pitch forks and torches.

Life is suffering.

I don't think that binary is helpful. We can make graduated steps to get a new normal. While I do agree that food shortages would be likely, they are still likely. We could be focusing on initiatives to get food to people in their communities that aren't restaurants. I think the nihilist perspective of "make it how it was before and damn the cost" is a failure of imagination. We need to adapt and focus on taking care of our neighbors. There are ways to do that to weather a storm. Apparently we have chosen not to.

The “techy libertarians” were the first hanging signs agains hand shaking and warning everybody willing to listen back in January.

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