Stay Shut Down or Open It Up ?

Regardless of how you feel about the subject you should be able to understand that it's complex and that others feel just as strongly but differently.  The reasoning behind their actions may or may not seem valid to you but they are not going to change their minds any more than their feelings.

Full disclosure- I feel that it's too soon. I'll try to keep that bias out of this essay as much as I can.

First off, a few stipulations.

Covid-19 for whatever reason is deadlier than "the flu".  We've already lost more people to it than the regular old flus' killed in all of last year. 

 

Where you live and other things influence how serious you think this is.  Here in middle Florida we have only a few that have died and a few dozen who tested positive.  In New York they have "refer" trucks filling up with dead people and the funeral homes are piling them up in bags.  They can't even come to pick up your loved ones who die at home for sometimes several days. 

As for the protests and "sooner for the economy" movement. Is it the worst thing ever ? Is there perhaps some good in there aside from the "freedom at any price" ? 

Many of them will get sick and infect bunches of other people. They in turn will infect a whole lot more and I don't think our health care system is ready for that. 

 Most of them will recover though and our herd immunity will get a large bump.  This will speed up the process.  The price will be high but are the results worth it.  Some number of people, real living people will die that most likely would not have even got sick.

I can't say how many people that will be. I can only say I hope it's not you or someone close to you.  Also I can hope and pray that by speeding up the process, some people who would have been infected will be spared by the bump in herd immunity.