WALSH: The Media Is Presenting A False Choice On The Coronavirus
By Matt Walsh DailyWire.com


The debate over the coronavirus response seems to be centered around a false dilemma. We are told, mostly by left-wing media personalities, that the choice is either to slow the spread of the virus or not slow it, take it seriously or not take it seriously. According to this version, those advocating a protracted, economy-ruining, nationwide shut down are on the side of taking the disease seriously and slowing the spread. Those who feel apprehensive about intentionally plunging into another Great Depression are on the side of not taking the disease seriously and doing nothing whatsoever to slow its spread.

The caricaturing of the Let’s Not Destroy The Economy side gets even more absurd. Those of us on that end of the spectrum are accused of “putting the economy over people.” We are embracing “mass death” and consigning our grandmothers to the morgue. As one media guy put it to me, we “have a hard-on for mass murder.”

I can’t help but notice that nearly everyone making these points (though “points” may be too generous a term) is currently employed. They enjoy their uninterrupted income streams as they accuse out of work retail clerks and waitresses of being greedy money grubbers for wanting to earn a paycheck again to feed their families.

Of course, the whole notion that “people” and “economy” are two separate categories, and that one must choose between preserving the former -- excerpt, rest at link above --

Very good, Mr. Wash. He concludes:

The strategies suggested above would certainly slow the spread to some extent. Would they slow it enough? I don’t know. Is their chance of slowing the spread good enough to justify opening up the economy to stave off a historic collapse that would ruin many millions of lives? I think so. Again, I could be wrong. But this is the argument I’d be wrong about. I would not be wrong that the virus is no big deal and therefore nothing should be done to fight it, because that is not an argument I am making or anyone else is making.

Enough with the caricatures and false dichotomies. This problem is too serious for those kinds of games.

But, doesn't address the central point, which is that battering the economy down to the point of collapse is the real objective, and half measures simply won't do....

That is, they aren't in error, or "thinking wrongly," you (and most people) are just giving them more credit than they deserve....