Wait, are you talking about the people who want to send everyone back to work now, even though we don't even have masks for doctors yet? Are you saying they are trying to minimize death and misery? Or are we talking about completely different people here?
I'm not in that situation, but I wouldn't be caught dead silencing their voices.
With those people taken care of, the protests are reduced to landowners demanding blood for their haircuts and Fuddruckers.
And I seriously doubt any of the protesters are landowners, aside, perhaps from "owning" their houses. ("owning" == mortgages, in most cases)
This is an argument made in a bad faith. You can't send "everyone to work now", if you are not running a gulag. People who are financially secure can stay at home till 2021, nobody can force them to go to work, this is obvious.
It's a question of being able to make a personal decision between staying at home or going to work.
>It's a question of being able to make a personal decision between staying at home or going to work.
Double speak. You mean rich people can decide to quarantine until 2021, and poor people can decide between work followed by exposure and possible death, or homelessness followed by exposure and possible death.
To make this decision for him looks unethical to me. And why exactly poor? It might be solidly middle class person.
EDIT: I'm pushing forties, can sustain myself for 1.5 years without working maintaining the same lifestyle, and I would go to work if I could. I'm damn tired working from home.
Interesting. I work from home 20 years already and have no desire to sit in a cubicle or waste my time in downtown traffic. I have my own company and products but also develop products for other companies on order and my first ever requirement is that unless there is some super duper meeting I only work at my own premises.
Do not feel lonely either as I have enough friends with whom I can socialize to my heart's content whenever we feel like.