Originally posted by Robtard
He's trying to equalize that being able to go to the gym during a pandemic is no different than protesting against the government after a hideous crime and injustice has been committed by the very people who are supposed to protect us.
Be fair: it was destroying people's livelihoods and their ability to actually survive, long term.
Depression, familial tensions, suppressed immune systems due to isolation, extended anxiety on how one will survive with no source of money for long periods of time, and economic recession that will be felt by the working class for at least ten years.
10,000-12,000 suicides directly related to the 2008 Housing Market Crash and 250,000 more stress related deaths due to the 2008 Housing Market Crash. Just in the US. This is a heavy price to pay for capitalism.
The unemployment and economic damage is quite severe and in some ways, much much worse than the 2008 Housing Market Crash. Epidemiologists were acutely aware that we were making a decision of short term lives saved for long term lives lost.
Making the comments that people just wanted haircuts or just wanted to go to the gym is callused and ignorant. Pretend you're not a human for a moment - are you aware that these social interactions, even within industry, are essential for human life? We are social creatures by nature (unarguably the most social creatures to have ever existed on the planet). These various activities keep us healthy, alive, and thriving. Our very biology, what keeps us going, is dependent upon us doing this "stuff." Ending them for extended periods of time has a direct body count. A body count that will keep stacking years after most people stop talking about the COVID-19 pandemic.
By sheer body count, we could multiply the number of people killed by police each year, by 5, and it still would not stack up next to the body count from the COVID-19 lockdown repercussions. You mock the lockdown protesters but if the lockdown protesters cause even 1 state to open up 4 weeks early, it is possible they saved far more black lives lost due to economic ruin and lockdowns than any amount of anti-violence protests against the police would save for the next 100 years.
No one will care or actually take the time to respond to my post with any seriousness or sincerity. It's just e-gotchas and one-ups. Nobody really wants to talk about it outside of nerdy epidemiologists and economists. And nothing serious is being discussed in the MSM about this.