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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I get a little stuck on the morals of it all, too, and that's where I have to sadly be really blunt because people don't like to see it or think about it. If we've done all of this to save hundreds of thousands of mostly-elderly lives, and the cost is millions of starving children, then that is a complete and utter moral disaster.
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When society doesn't intervene then it defaults to nature and the natural laws apply with regard to something like a virus - the strongest/healthiest survive. At the moment what we are basically seeing are the laws of nature and us (at the moment) futilely trying to fight against it. All these things are an equilibrium. We are adjusting to a knew equilibrium and we really have no experience of adjusting to such a fundamental change.
We pay lip service to social care, but it really is nothing more in the scheme of things. I think we will go now full pelt to one extreme or the other ... proper social care, or none at all