# Am I missing something here? (re: reopening of bars, etc... now)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone
**Tags:** covid-quarantine
**Created:** [October 6, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356 "2020-10-06T17:27:43Z")
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### Author: ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-here-re-reopening-of-bars-etc-now/922356/294 "2020-10-21T15:48:47Z")

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> [@SayTwo](#):
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> I didn’t mean precisely. It would make a gargantuan difference whether the ‘necessary’ deaths, in your parlance, were 75 percent as opposed to 25, say. Gargantuan. Which number do you think it is closer to?

That’s going to depend on how we behave.

> [@SayTwo](#):
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> You cannot agree that we should try to do something about starvation and disease and despair while at the same time draw a line that we can’t add incremental risk to grocery clerks or health care personnel.

So we have to fight disease and despair by causing more of it?

Your arguments are nonsensical.

> [@SayTwo](#):
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> > [@Irishman](#):
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> > Where are the folks saying, “It’s just a flu,” and “If your worried, don’t come out,” getting their ideas?
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> I think they are getting them from looking at the same naked evidence that everyone else is.

Definitely nonsensical. Anybody looking at the evidence isn’t going to be concluding that covid-19 is “just a flu.”

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