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<blockquote data-quote="Rez Exelon" data-source="post: 3356236" data-attributes="member: 5800">There&#039;s a saying I heard a long time ago that stuck with me. &quot;People aren&#039;t against you, they are for themselves&quot; and this situation really proves that. Nearly every person I talk to about COVID starts by looking at it from THEM outward to family, friends, acquaintences, all the way down to the general public. Last numbers I saw for OK was running a 5.8% fatality rate, but I bet people wouldn&#039;t want to name 6 names out loud per 100 people they know that they want to mark for death. It&#039;s so easy to say open it up and let the weak die, because largely, we are biased that nothing bad will happen to us or our circle, and that our needs trump the mystery people we don&#039;t know. IMHO it&#039;s the same thing as why people don&#039;t plan for a disaster (&quot;Oh that could never happen to ME!&quot;). I&#039;ve also noticed a trend that most people clamoring to open everything up are the ones with financial struggles rather than ideological ones. That leads me to really wonder how this whole thing would have played out if we had the same safety nets for vulnerable individuals that we do for MegaCorps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rez Exelon, post: 3356236, member: 5800"] There's a saying I heard a long time ago that stuck with me. "People aren't against you, they are for themselves" and this situation really proves that. Nearly every person I talk to about COVID starts by looking at it from THEM outward to family, friends, acquaintences, all the way down to the general public. Last numbers I saw for OK was running a 5.8% fatality rate, but I bet people wouldn't want to name 6 names out loud per 100 people they know that they want to mark for death. It's so easy to say open it up and let the weak die, because largely, we are biased that nothing bad will happen to us or our circle, and that our needs trump the mystery people we don't know. IMHO it's the same thing as why people don't plan for a disaster ("Oh that could never happen to ME!"). I've also noticed a trend that most people clamoring to open everything up are the ones with financial struggles rather than ideological ones. That leads me to really wonder how this whole thing would have played out if we had the same safety nets for vulnerable individuals that we do for MegaCorps. [/QUOTE]

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