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And for those following at home, the stress response is why we’re not saving lives: we’re trading lives.  Being locked in the house in unlawful house arrest (quarantine is when the sick are isolated. Locking up the healthy is tyranny and unlawful house arrest) and the subsequent chronic stress will cause everything from auto-immune issues (Hi. Yes, I suffer from them. No. You don’t want to see my hands right now. They’re mostly raw flesh. In my case the stress originating in what we’re doing to the economy and what that will do to our kids’ lives.) to cancer.

That in addition to the problems caused by poverty and deprivation, which we’re aggressively courting.  Things like not having the resources to treat the sick, look after the young, or keep away the various issues of the human condition.  Sure these deprivations were normal/still are for most of humanity. But we didn’t have to endure them.  So, why are we bringing them on ourselves again? What justifies this?

To misquote from A Man For All Seasons: It profits a man nothing to give his soul up the future for the whole world … but for Wales?

Or in other words, you can give up your own prosperity to save “just one life.”  But how many lives will you five up to save that one life? Does it matter if you lack the imagination to see the destruction that s in the future or not right before your eyes?  And will you look back on the work of these months and wonder what possessed the world? And if perhaps that wording is literal?

In every trade it is very important to know what you’re paying for the supposed benefit. It’s even more important to understand There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.