40% unemployment vs 50% dead folks in nursing homes (your stat from a different thread). Talk about decimated.i think even a conservative like Ldahl trying to be even keel would struggle to say that 50% dead people in nursing homes is anything other than f’ing horrific.
But sure. Old people are useless and gonna die in a year or two. Just push that timeline up a bit. No big deal. Smh.
Many people in their 60’s have 20 more years and we just retired and might want to actually enjoy them. Now kids are getting a syndrome that is really bad from the virus. Are they expendable too?
Neither the pandemic nor the economic consequences had to be so bad if we had decent people in power and decent policy.
(and yes it reveals a heck of a lot of latent ageism, I mean sure there are old people for whom death might in some cases be blessing, say those with dementia etc., but it really admits no generalization, there are old people with good healthy lucid years left).
long term (after this pandemic is over) result of this is we aren't even going to have adequate medical personnel I suspect. Some because they have died tragically, but also how many will continue to be in that field after the pandemic passes in a country that can't even provide adequate PPE, rather than either: 1) leaving the country, really the best idea if it's feasible and skillsets and entanglements allow or 2) leaving the profession.
Trees don't grow on money
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