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we as a society make decisions like this all the time. money and convenience over lives.

we could mandate that every person can only drive the safest car, the minimum amount, and never over 40 MPH. it would save lives. but fuck that shit lets drive normal and people will die. fuck the dead. we are trying to live.

psychologists call this the "taboo tradeoff". like when we trade dead people for a good economy. it short circuits peoples brains.

the fact that we dont have a govt gestapo jailing fat people until they stop eating like idiots means we are letting people die. good. let people die.

when faced with a taboo tradeoff like this people cant reason through it. money and freedom is worth more than lives. thats just tthe way it works. human lives are sacred. but not so sacred that we shut the world down for them forever.

when faced with taboo tradeoffs:

"they exhibit moral outrage, express anger and disgust, become increasingly inflexible in negotiations, and display an insensitivity to a strict cost-benefit analysis of the exchange. What’s more, when people receive monetary offers for relinquishing a sacred value, they display a particularly striking irrationality. Not only are people unwilling to compromise sacred values for money—contrary to classic economic theory’s assumption that financial incentives motivate behavior—but the inclusion of money in an offer produces a backfire effect such that people become even less likely to give up their sacred values compared to when an offer does not include money. People consider trading sacred values for money so morally reprehensible that they recoil at such proposals"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychology-of-taboo-tradeoff/

 

I absolutely agree we MUST get things going and quickly. However that doesn’t mean to go back to things as they were. Our economy and society have been running on a knife edge depending on transportation and inventory management to keep the shelves full and factories working. We’re too close to the edge and can’t risk more time stopped. Likewise we need to get businesses running so we don’t swamp ourselves in debt and destroy the economy.
For some time I think masks in retail business (restaurants, bars, stores etc) should be mandatory for both employees and patrons. Likewise I think hand sanitizer at every entrance should be required. There’s no reason to just spread the virus around and expose everyone. It is up to people to be responsible for themselves and their impact on others. same thing for those at high risk of complications. They need to self protect.
Finally we’re on the cusp of developing solid treatments for most conditions caused by the virus. In a short time less that 1% will die as is the case with the flu. I think we needed this a month ago but this is a fast moving situation and the conditions and the stakes have changed.

 

I see you don't know much about economics or me. We can't continue to print money until we grow a spine and sack up. It just doesn't work that way.

If you are scared, put your mask on, call @Bengal B on the phone and you two can have a good cry together. Maybe he will play you a song on his guitar.

The rest of us need to get back to work.

 

Ok ... not to interrupt yalls economic discussion .... but I’m sitting here watching the tube .... and every channel has these bull shit commercials thanking so n so, #inthistogether ... we love you ... blah blah blah.

Sick of it. We know it’s not sincere ... it’s just marketing. We’lol get back to throwing bricks at each other by the end of May.

..... ok ... carry on.

 

The unemployed should check into getting into gravedigging. I hear it's a booming business these days.

 

No not really

 

Gravedigging...perhaps. But funeral homes are probably having a bad time. The father of one of my best friends from high school died a couple of weeks ago (not COVID), but my friend couldn't have a funeral for his father.

 

A couple in Baton Rouge who had met at LSU in 1955 died within a few days of each other. Their sons and daughters couldn't even be with them for their last days.

 

And now, a 3rd positive case at another business unit in 3 weeks. I gotta mount up and direct a 3rd decon in 3 weeks. Fuck all this

 

I know, it’s from a liberal NY Magazine so it can’t be true.....but what if it is?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...white-house-blockade-for-coronavirus-ppe.html