re: Hobby Lobby defies shutdown order, begins re-opening stores

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You're right. The people should be leading the charge. But if the people on this forum are any indication, the vast majority of them are cowering behind their government in fear.

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If you think this site is bad you should take a look at reddit or twitter...

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But if the people on this forum are any indication, the vast majority of them are cowering behind their government in fear.

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Or maybe they're just doing one simple thing they can to help alleviate the spread of a devastating virus?

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the vast majority of them are cowering behind their government in fear.

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Cowering behind the government in fear?

So in this situation, we need to ignore the fact that hospitals are operating at or over capacity that doctors and nurses are already being overworked

And just open everything back up so that it can spread out of control so that there will be a lot more people who need medical attention, who would not receive it because the system would be overloaded?

And this argument about "well grocery stores are open so why cant other places be open?" Yes grocery stores are open. The two times I have gone to the grocery store since this started, it was not at all as many people as usual. For the most part it seemed like most people were grabbing items they needed and checking out. I didn't really see people just looking around.

There was a guy by the baskets who would pull one out for people who needed them, but he sprayed sanitizer on them and wiped them down first. Workers had gloves on.

It might not be like that at every store, but the idea is to limit as much as possible in order to not have an environment where a bunch of people are not crowded together, as much as possible.

Why is this so hard for people? Yes it sucks. Yes it will have a negative impact on us, the economy, etc but the more places that open up the more places there are for this to spread.

Its not about "let people make their own decisions. If they want to quarantine then they can, but the government shouldn't tell people they can't do something or not go anywhere". I normally agree with that, but in this case how do you recommend they handle hospitals being over capacity?

Should people who have the symptoms of coronavirus stay home and if it gets worse then just let them die although there is away to prevent them from doing so, but because RollTide1987 thinks people are cowards and fear the government, a normally healthy person shouldn't be able to receive the treatment that will allow them to easily get over it which would increase their chances of dying?

Then everyone would be raising hell because the government knew about this and did nothing to protect people. .

Just follow the guidelines. This is temporary, but if all of these idiots keep opening more places that will draw crowds then it would spread even more and it will slow down everything even longer. How is this hard for people to understand?