classB4ever wrote:The Schwab wrote:In my own personal opinion: It is worth it to me to have to work through inconveniences in my life so I can help protect vulnerable populations.
Agreed. However, you must also decide what the scope of "inconvenience" is. Would you consider losing a business you worked your entire life to build an inconvenience? Losing your home? Not being able to provide for your family? You see, my problem is that some businesses were allowed to stay open and others were not. Who determines that? Also, whoever did make those decisions, what early criteria/data did they use to make those decisions?
Put another way, would you be willing to lose your life savings, home, business if you were told you had a 99.9% chance of not dying from Covid19? 99% chance? 98% chance? 90% chance? 50% chance? What is your personal line that you would cross? Once again, not trying to start an argument, just like to hear other peoples opinions.
First and foremost, I feel sorry for people who lost their jobs due to the shut down.
I'm not a business owner, but the days for brick and mortar stores were numbered long before COVID-19, the shut down due to the pandemic just accelerated it. I feel for those people, I truly do. I think as a business owner you have to be creative in how you make your money, being diversified would help you through the down times I would think. I 100% understand that some businesses don't have the luxury of diversifying what they do and I feel for those businesses. I do know that there are a lot of businesses that experienced growth during the shutdown. I guess I don't know what kind of businesses you're talking about, but those would be a few of my thoughts on the business side of things.
I guess I should clarify my thoughts on the inconveniences:
1. I think that it is absolutely ridiculous for social gatherings of large groups to be happening
2. Sporting events can happen without fans
3. If we do have sports, fans at sporting events can wear masks
4. People out shopping can wear masks. If there are truly people who CAN'T wear a mask, I understand them not wearing one, but there are other options such as a face shield (and I'd be willing to bet that over 50% of people claiming they can't wear a mask, could actually wear a mask and they just don't want to.)
As an educator and a coach I might be in the minority of this one but:
1. Life will go on if there are not high school sports, they are not a matter of life and death.
2. Do I feel for the kids who didn't get to compete in a state tournament last year? Absolutely
3. Do I feel bad for the kids who didn't get to compete in their spring sports? You bet I do.
4. Did that affect peoples lively hood? I could be wrong, but I don't think it did (maybe a handful of people).
In my opinion, a lot of good would come from a mask mandate.
I don't know about the life savings statement as I'm sure there are people who lost a lot of money due to the shut down and I'm not going to speak to other peoples finances. I do think that maybe the shut down opened some peoples eyes to the fact that they may have been living outside of their means before the shut down.