It's a false equivalence and it makes me want to scream

[ok_cpu]

I know everyone here gets it. I guess I just need to get it off of my chest.

It is not social distance or have an "open" economy, whatever the hell that means.

Reasonable people, who I think make up the vast majority, will not return to normal life because tRump or their governor waives a magic wand. They won't shop the same way, return to restaurants, movie theaters, travel etc. at anywhere near the numbers prior to the orders and best practices taking place. They'll spend less in general due to the continuing uncertainty.

I feel like the demand will not be there to justify bringing many back to work, with those that are at risk of being laid off again in short order.

That's the "open" economy. On the public health front, it does nothing but undo all of the work and sacrifice of so many over the last 6-8 weeks. Since there is no federal coordination, and an inability to do anything but manage the lags due to lack of testing, more will get sick and die, and people will again hunker down and withdraw even if there is never another stay-home order.

This is a dire public health matter being treated as a campaign issue and every decision is a new doubling-down of the same idiocy.

tRump may be the only president - past, future, or potential - who could fail at uniting the country behind sound public health policy and the body politic behind appropriate economic support during this crisis. He fails because he refuses to see past the orange at the end of his own nose and the green inside his own money clip.

[treestar]

1. They are indeed not thinking it through

not that thinking is a thing they do ever. It won't go back to normal. If more people get sick, it will get worse. They are not reality based, as usual.

[pandr32]

3. +1

[Shermann]

2. Restaurants and movie theaters don't worry me

What worries me is mass transit and large office buildings. The Things Some People Can't Avoid.

[LizBeth]

4. For most of us it has only been a month or less. Seems like a long time, but not that long.

I am in an area where we started isolating probably the fastest. And I had to leave work so I had to wait for government to get it going. That was like 3/12 and I think I worked a couple more days then with all the cancellations was able to leave work around the 15th.

Washington had its first day no new cases, no deaths. Oregon had no new cases yesterday too. But they get one here, one there. The only have had a couple thousand.

But, ya, I figure work will continue to be dead and I will ask if I can be one of the last brought back.

[sop]

5. If reopened businesses recover only 40%-50% of their previous customers, because most people

would stay away for fear of infection, no matter what the governors say, they would go bankrupt, and probably faster than if they had remained closed.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Most people are ultimately going to be way smarter about things

than Trump/some GOP pols. I think most businesses will even be a little slower and more hesitant to moving full steam ahead as well. Unfortunately, we still have to share space with Trumpistas.