I hope we shall always remember
that Trump supporters decided to turn this all into survival of the fittest.
So for those who end up on their death bed....
Just understand that if you are overweight, elderly, have heart disease, diabetes, cancer, lung disease, are immunocompromised, have kidney disease, etc.
Well....if you have those things, your death is deemed as acceptable.
No. Don't get me wrong. The Trump supporters might miss you. They might shed tears. They might provide heart-tugging eulogies at your funeral. But still...they felt the economy was more important than keeping you safe and healthy.
And it's actually not the economy. It's the status quo. Because we could have gone true market economy—let pandemic-friendly businesses thrive and allow pandemic-not-friendly businesses fail...giving money to people so they can survive rather than pushing them back to work.
But back to the dying.
Here's an analogy.
If someone dies on a Disney World rollercoaster, we say that it wasn't the roller coaster that killed them. We say they died from an underlying condition. Right?
These roller coaster deaths are rare. Healthy people can go on the ride without a scary. fatal incident. And despite the warning signs, I'm betting most people with mild to moderate underlying conditions will live through the experience and go onto fight evil alien toys on the Buzz Lightyear ride.
But what if 180,000 Americans died on Space Mountain? Would we still be saying that the roller coaster is safe and not anything to worry about?
What if 6% of the people dying on Space Mountain had no underlying condition? Would we then say...hey! See. Told you Space Mountain is not a concern! Only 11,000 healthy people were killed on that ride!
No. I don't think we would.
And I'm quite sure Disney would have shut down Space Mountain way before we got even remotely close to 180,000 deaths.
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