The selfishness is not in their views. We're all entitled to that. This affects my pocketbook too.
The selfishness is in clustering themselves on the state capital, not keeping their distance, not wearing masks.
I would like to see more businesses be able to operate. I personally don't understand how WalMart can still sell shirts and pants, but a small clothing store cannot even have the opportunity to get it.
I truly understand the frustration, because it's frustration that I feel each week this drags on.
All the same, this non-cooperation will be costly...and not only do we have to think of the lives of the vulnerable, but hospital workers as well. I personally don't think we need to fill one more solitary bed than is necessary.
I was listening to the radio the other day and heard a discussion about the value of a human life. ACtuaries actually study such things, and in the world of business, human life does not have infinite value, but is valued at around $10 Million.
If I died obeying the right away while another car hit me because I didn't stop..... The city could spend a thousand or two erecting a stop sign....or $200,000 to get signals at that intersection.
However, society is not willing to spend more than $10 Million per life to prevent loss of life.
Doing the math between Covid 19 spending and the people who have died, the cost to society has been relatively similar.....
So I don't think the selfishness comes in having the view that people have, but in their failure to consider life above money. It is not selfish to want to feed one's family.... but to defiantly fill rooms full of people, to disregard the spatial separation --- is not only selfish but ignorant --- to the lives of others, and disrespectful to responders and health care workers.
When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted that you're more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying.
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