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Originally Posted by Chris M
That's all reasonable.
It's as though nobody is willing to talk about the acceptable death rate. As it stands now it's as though 1 is too many and anyone saying otherwise doesn't care about human life. And they talk as though there's very little cost to keeping things locked down, and very little benefit to reversing course and getting back to life.
The status quo is a very immature way to handle a complex social situation such as this. It used to be Americans would rise in the face of adversity, but holy crap this is not the America I grew up in.
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We could also argue "acceptable economic loss", also a complex social situation which is different for everyone.
"Acceptable death rate" is a moving target. No one is going to agree on an "acceptable death rate because everyone's situation is different.
The government has to make that call and we all have to live with the results. It's just like going into a war, how many lives are we willing to lose to achieve an acceptable outcome?