There are plenty of terms I'd like to call you right now, but I'll keep those to myself. Other than that, I think you should just leave these forums, period.
Perhaps I missed something in regards to
@Max Sterling 's posting elsewhere but I have to ask, why do you say this? Contrarian thought no good?
They bring up a good point: some of the long-term damage done by our plague restrictions won't be half the forgettable hypothetical some people seem to think it is. See for example, the very real and very damaging long-term consequences of keeping children out of school in cases of age groups where socialisation is extremely important.
Or the massive long-term mental health impacts (I know, as a society we still don't take mental health seriously, but that doesn't make society correct) not just in the general population, but especially in cases where women and/or children are stuck in abusive homes.
Discounting long-term damage to individual and societal health is just as stupid as ignoring the dangers of the current plague......and arguably moreso given the acute nature of viral damage as opposed to some of the lingering--and in cases of abuse and trauma multigenerational--damage caused by our responses to it.
Is the life of someone who has lived a long and good one worth more, less, or the same as someone who is just starting out theirs?
I personally believe that a child's right to a chance at a decent life is more important than the right to life of someone who has already lived a long one and is in their last days in decrepit state. Does that make me a bad person?
Before anyone wonders, my grandparents are all dead. Last one died in Europe last summer. Not of plague, by the way. He was getting too decrepit to live on his own at 94 and they were about to put him in a home. He thought better of it and kicked the bucket. Smart man. "Natural death" was the official cause. I think it was "Aversion to warehousing", seeing as he's related to me. Old people die and in a lot of cases are better off dead than living the sad shell of a life they inhabit.
I know, we're neurologically wired to respond to threats in certain, often short-sighted, ways and this has been evident these last 10 or so months, but rationally thinking through our reactions to the plague would do us a world of good.
