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Re:CA Restaurant Owner In Tears Over Outdoor Dining Ban by nickthemagicman on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:15PM (#25320977)
The thing is...if the vulnerable 20% of the population can't stay in quarantine... but 80% of the population is low risk...this is not societies problem anymore.. this is that 20%'s problem.
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Re:CA Restaurant Owner In Tears Over Outdoor Dining Ban by dTal on Sunday December 06, 2020 @05:52AM (#25322676)
What's the upper limit on the percentage of people you're happy to throw under the bus? Are problems only problems if they affect 51% or more of the population?
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Re:CA Restaurant Owner In Tears Over Outdoor Dining Ban by rasz on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:55PM (#25326136)
This is classic trolley problem.
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Re:CA Restaurant Owner In Tears Over Outdoor Dining Ban by nickthemagicman on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:00AM (#25332701)
This is literally the trolley problem haha.
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Re:CA Restaurant Owner In Tears Over Outdoor Dining Ban by nickthemagicman on Sunday December 06, 2020 @06:06AM (#25322719)
You've got it wrong. The people being thrown under the bus are the people being sent into poverty because 20% of the population can't seem to stay in quarantine.

Would you put 100 million people into poverty to save 1 life of a person who wants to go to Starbucks to get a Peppermint Mocha?

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