<story><title>Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report</title><url>https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update-sep-2020.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>booleandilemma</author><text>I think the problem with our response to covid in the US was that all our policies were half-assed.&lt;p&gt;The result has been that we’ve had this 7 month period of semi-lockdown (can eat outside, but not indoors; we’re going to send a support check, but only 1, etc.) while China was able to have a full lockdown for a few weeks and mostly eradicate it.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile people are still dying here because people don’t want to wear masks because freedom, or something.</text></comment>
<story><title>Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report</title><url>https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update-sep-2020.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>These words of CS Lewis seem appropriate in our time of COVID as well! Here’s what he said in 1948 about the mental shift required by living with the threat of the atomic bomb:&lt;p&gt;In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”</text></comment>