Not only that and this may sound morbid, but I hear all the time, what I want in life is to make sure my kids or our countrys children are set up for a successful future. How is this helping that cause? Kids are already struggling more so now than they were 10 years ago. Its people in their 20's and 30's losing their jobs because they are on the bottom of the totem pole at work. It's thosenkids that can't pay rent, have to sell their car and now they can't get to work. Forcing them to take out loans with ridiculous interests rates that they'll never be able to pay off. This is where the morbid part starts, is this lockdown worth buying a few years with a family member, but destroying the next 25 years of your kids future. I get it death sucks and it sucks to lose anyone I've lost all 3 of my grandparents, but its a part of life. We can either live in fear of something that is going to happen anyways, or we can do what we can to take proper precautions, be as hygienic with possible, and do the best we can with what we have to set our children, their children this country up for the future.
Is this the first ever recession by government edict? That's what makes the entire thing truly bizarre. But honestly it's been four months of this mess and you've changed people's habits permanently. My anniversary is Thursday, the in laws offered to watch the kids "so we could go somewhere" but where the hell would we go? My wife wants nothing to do with being in a restaurant, picking something up from a decent place would mean eating it on a park bench or a blanket since it would be cold by the time we got home. We could take a stroll down by the river with our masks on dodging strangers as if they were lepers. That sounds romantic and worthwhile. I thought this would be over quickly and stupidly believed 2 weeks was going to be it. Here we are four months later and this **** is seriously weighing on people's mental health. I'm honestly surprised there aren't more "Karen" videos out there. We have kept people in a completely abnormal state of limbo for months where some people are pretending things are fine and some people are telling you to update your will. We have taken away their ability to earn a wage, to spend that wage, to relax and recreate, to worship, to socialize, to do human things. There are lots of other things going on in people's lives outside of this pandemic and you have no idea what will push them over the edge. The economic webinars I've been on don't see us returning to anything close to normal before 2023. The damage this will wrought on the average person is going to be immense and long lasting.
That might be the case, but there were still plenty of jobs and the unemployment rate had been steadily dropping. Now there are less jobs and a higher unemployment rate. Companies are going to worry about getting their balance sheets right, and turning a profit before a lot of those unemployed come back to work. In the mean time those unemployed are going to have to choose between putting a roof over their head or buying food. That might've been a problem for some, but for the most part if you worked you had what you needed. Now we are looking at years of people not being able to afford what they need.
As I have explained, Sweden's fault was the lack of care for their elderly. If they gave nursing homes and older patients more priority/attention, there would be a much different picture. As it stands, they still fared better overall than a number of countries. Subtract the excess deaths in the oldest subset of the population/nursing home residents, and they actually did better.
