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This one really hits the mark

I think a lot of us feel this. And those who are older feel it very acutely. There’s nothing more valuable than time and being locked down is robbing a whole lot of them of precious moments they can’t get back.

A lot of people seem to think it’s just fine to tell older people, people who are sick or have underlying conditions that make them vulnerable, that they need to lock themselves in their houses for the foreseeable future and then everyone else should be able to go out and live normally if they just stay away from these people. That’s consigning all those people to a much longer period of painful isolation and everyone else to a longer period of being unable to see their loved ones.

If everyone observed the mask wearing and social distancing rules, the period of isolation would be much shorter for everyone because the virus will be contained as it is in civilized countries right now.

There’s never been a better example of how collective action for the greater good can work for everyone. And I suspect it’s American radical individualism, along with government malfeasance, that’s made the US response to the pandemic the worst in the developed world.

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