I definitely empathize with victims of financial hardship, speaking as one! I have zero income right now, and I am not sure where I'll land at the end of this. But financial hardship is solvable -- food, housing, etc. can be handed out. You can't hand out extra lives to victims of the disease. The US government is literally printing trillions of dollars.
In my first-world country, most people I know are either:
- working from home, otherwise normal
- got laid off and are receiving government income, which is pretty modest for doing absolutely nothing.
- working with reduced pay/hours, which is subsidized by the government.
Are people starving? Are people dying on the streets of malnourishment? I don't see that happening.
People are dying in hospitals due to a disease. That pretty much trumps everything else that isn't killing people.
In my first-world country, most people I know are either: - working from home, otherwise normal - got laid off and are receiving government income, which is pretty modest for doing absolutely nothing. - working with reduced pay/hours, which is subsidized by the government.
Are people starving? Are people dying on the streets of malnourishment? I don't see that happening.
People are dying in hospitals due to a disease. That pretty much trumps everything else that isn't killing people.