Lockdown
We've shut down the economy over irrational fears and computer models that were not only flawed, but had a history of being flawed by code that wasn't reviewed, produced wildly different results on subsequent runs with the same data set, by people that didn't conform to the recommendations they endorsed. For the first time in history, we've essentially quarantined the healthy. In the U.S. alone, the unemployment filings jumped to over 30 million. In perspective, if just half that number has two or more dependents that number doubles. What happens to this people in the future? Do we have any empathy for them or do we just ignore this? I'm sure most people are familiar with the domino effect from childhood. Isolation, depression, anxiety, threat of suicide, possible abuse due to the economic impact. This "zero tolerance" ideology around "preventing deaths" is irrational. The road to perdition is indeed paved with "good intentions." There