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And on top of it, we have people like you and OP, who say their lives aren't really that important because you want to go to the bar.  Seriously WTF.

I hope that made you feel better. Enjoy the warm fuzzy indignation, go post about it in Michael's"GRRRR!  Outrage Culture!" topic. "GRRR! I'm outraged that SOME PEOPLE want old-people to die so that they can go back to watching sportsball at the bar!"

I've gotten that several times in this thread, and I've seen it elsewhere as well, directed at people who question whether banning social gatherings and human interaction and many kinds of commerce and business for the foreseeable future is worth the cost. 

People think it's hilarious that "Karen" is mad that she can't get her hair done, but probably haven't considered that "Karen's" hairdresser is at home wondering how she's going to feed her family on the government assistance she receives.

While yourself and the waldo and various other smart-alecs around the internet have decided that "the cost" is that people can't go to the bar or get their hair done, it's a lot higher than that.

Leaving aside the people whose livelihoods have been lost and businesses that are shuttered and might never reopen, there's also the human cost. Seniors can't see their friends for their weekly bridge game or coffee and gripe sessions. Peewee hockey players might be old enough to vote by the time youth sports is able to resume. Weekly religious services are important to many people, but they're closed now. An endless variety of cultural and entertainment and recreational events are shut down-- everything from concerts and theatre to continuing education classes to movies and sports. Health and fitness facilities, gyms, yoga classes.  How do you have a wedding during this?  How do people date now?    What about school?  What about college?

You guys seem to think an ongoing ban on gatherings over 10 people is trivial or funny. But in dismissing this as a few people being mad that they can't go out and get drunk is incredibly dismissive to an incredibly wide variety of human activities.  Peoples' mental health is suffering, marriages are being strained, domestic violence and alcoholism and suicide will all be on the rise. The effects of isolation are going to cost peoples' lives too, you can take that to the bank.  Don't be so cavalier about dismissing the impact this is having on people.

 -k