COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

sammymvpknight said

If it was up to many of my doctor friends I’m convinced that we’d NEVER reopen. Many are convinced that we must uphold strict social distancing at its current level until COVID is eradicated. Seeing people starve in the streets from hunger be damned. It’s not based on science...it’s based on fear, wishful thinking, inability to accept difficult truths, and their own personal bias. God love them...they do care about people...but in a short-sighted, narrow focused type of way.

Click to expand...

There is nothing rational or logical about resorting to hyperbole to make a point. Hyperbole is an emotion and personal bias driven appeal to the emotions and biases of others. There's nothing logical or rational about it.

Where can people be seen starving in the streets from hunger as a direct and exclusive result of physical distancing, staying at home as much as possible and wearing a mask when leaving the home?

Maybe some people need to accept the possibility that a difficult truth is that we will have to make some financial sacrifices and change some of our habits to prevent avoidable suffering and dying?

We do what we can to prevent all suffering and death from all causes. Show me one thing that people suffer and die from that we don't do what we can to save as many people as we can from that suffering and dying. I would think any health care professional would know this.

By what logical and rational reasons should our response to COVD-19 be any different from our response to all other causes of suffering and death?