Be right, but bottom line is that I think many people have decided they’re willing to live with the risk. Other than a few outbreaks here and there (basically NYC and then some long term care facilities), cases are pretty few and far between.

The majority of working age Americans aren’t at significant risk of dying, and at this point there are very real questions as to whether or not the cure has been worse than the disease even with 60k dead (which is also a seriously inflated number since basically everyone dying is old, old people die a lot anyways and even if you didn’t die OF Covid, as long as you died WITH Covid, you’re counted as a Covid death). That’s from a buddy who is an ER doc.

How many people have not had routine breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, etc screenings because doctors offices and hospitals are shut down and braced for a huge influx of Covid patients? How many people are in pain because their orthopedic surgery is not an “emergency?” How many people are now unemployed? How many kids are food insecure with schools closing on basically no notice? What even is the educational implication of every child in this country essentially missing several months of school? We better be ready for the huge need for mental health professionals on the other end of this. The toll in human suffering FROM quarantine is unquantifiably massive. I read an article in an Australian paper the other day about the human suffering toll in the developing world from the Western lockdowns ... if they get laid off, their government can’t print money to bail them out. They literally starve.

I very much understand the need to step back and try to take stock of facts when presented with such a novel challenge. I supported the initial quarantine, and in fact our business closed down voluntarily about 2 weeks before being required to. But I also believe the best data we have no longer supports widespread closures and stay at home orders. Ultimately, people are free to make their own decisions based on their own situations, and enough data exists at this point to make educated decisions.