I wonder what historical analogies might help us to understand the willingness to tolerate a certain amount of death in the name of the economy.
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Don’t get me wrong, but we tolerate a certain amount of death in the trucking industry to keep goods rolling. Right?
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Just as 18th-century activists decided that those slave ship cross-sections would to this work, let's work as such activists and figure out the images you seek?
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It didn’t work. Mechanized farming is what ended slavery
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So we went from flatten the curve to prevent all infections to prevent all deaths. I guess we're in lockdown until death is solved
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There is ancient analogy for taking risks. It calls life.
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