How do you feel about society starting to open up?

[petra]

Whether or not you're planning on going out in it this week, the lockdown is beginning to ease in many places. How does that feel from your vantage point?

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I am deeply irritated. Especially as I've been learning that the funding and push behind the supposedly-grassroots 'open up' movement is the DeVos family and the oil industry. Ugh.

I'm really deeply irritated by the US formulation of "the economy vs lives". Maybe if we as a society provided more of a safety net people wouldn't have to choose between a low wage job and utter penury?! It's possible, after all!

[petra]

The DeVos family keeps finding new ways to be DeVilish, don't they? What a bunch of awful wastes of carbon.

I agree, the formulation of "But the economy!" as if the economy doesn't run on people is disgusting, and it underlines some of the basic problems with American society. I don't know how much other countries are weighing economy vs. people not dying; I don't have the attention span to encompass other places' decisions, for good or ill.

But if we provide a safety net, some people will choose to use the safety net instead of working, like that's a wholly bad thing under the circumstances.