The pro draconian lockdown people like Matty, Dave, etc either activley want to push these people further down the income inequality pole or are more concerned about their personal health (ill acknowledge a real threat) than the overall well being of these working class families.
100% untrue in my case
I'm mostly unconcerned about getting the virus. Also, I grew up working class and am currently a mix of white collar and lower-middle class artisan type. Most of my net worth is in my fledgling businesses and my wife's diamond ring. Wife and I are not poor but we're just getting by and have little assets.
I'm especially concerned for my working-class homies because this mess is now guaranteed to extend beyond 2021. And by "mess" I mean the economic carnage the virus going to cause. Read my early posts in this thread. I'm annoyed that the focus is still on the death rate, which is low enough that it's mostly irrelevant.
I'd feel a lot better about reopening our economies if we (by "we" I mean Canada and the US taken as a whole) had the cultural inclination and technological tools to track the spread like S. Korea allegedly did. We have neither (it's way too late to contain the virus like S. Korea did anyway, it would've needed to happen back in February) and our political leaders have recently decided that they were just going to wing it. I'm genuinely concerned that it'll drag out the problem and make everything worse, especially for the lower classes - to which my parents and all my aunts, uncles and cousins belong. My general feeling is that we're lining ourselves up for multiple lockdowns throughout the year when we could've nipped it in the bud with just one big one.
Granted, if a working-class family can't make ends meet and has tapped out their credit already, I don't have a solution for them beyond whatever govt help is available to them. But reopening early seems like the worst and most short-sighted move to make. IMO it's also guaranteeing that we won't see any sports for the rest of 2020 and possibly longer.
Of course, I don't have any hard data to offer to back up my position as this is all mental gymnastics and guesstimations based on a variety of journalistic and academic sources, many of which I skim and/or glaze over.
#GAMBOL, I guess.
conflicting interests and agendas. Public health and whatever noble causes, are seen primarily as tools and pr platforms to enrich and empower. Not ends in and of themselves. Obamacare is a fine example. 
I've been posting this for weeks. You're saying like that's a revelation.