Lower Nubia wrote:The obvious caveat is that the virus is receding because of lockdown, not of its own accord. Opening everything up again will stop it from receding.
The fact it is receding is not evidence that lockdown should be over, but that it works.
The point of the lockdown is to reduce the disease curve to the point that the healthcare system can give the most effective care. The point of the lockdown isn’t, nor is it possible, to reduce transmission to zero. Receding rates of infection mean lockdown restrictions should be reduced. This is what every country with receding rates is doing. This is what all 50 states are now doing. The justification for lockdowns was never continuous lockdown until we’re “safe.” Once again, we won’t be “safe” until transmission risk becomes zero because of widespread vaccines. Your argument is an argument for lockdown for the next year and a half.
Lockdown has a cost. Consider that cost, don’t ignore it. To relate this to the CDT, lockdown prevents people from going to life giving Mass. How long do you want people to wait to receive the Lord in the sacraments? How long do you want my parish’s one candidate to wait until he can be confirmed into the Ark of Salvation? He’s been waiting since Easter. At what point do you consider the spiritual cost of missed confessions? What is the cost of deathbeds without family members? Funerals without gatherings? The toll of the virus has been terrible. We mourn the dead and pray for their souls. As the virus recedes, consider the massive hardships taken up in the form lockdowns. In honesty, why do you want this suffering perpetuated beyond necessity, increasingly against the wishes of Church authorities?