r/science • u/umichnews • 2d ago

Psychology U-Michigan study finds most Americans prioritized preventing child abuse, domestic violence, and deaths linked to economic hardship over preventing additional COVID-19 deaths during lockdowns; researchers say these preferences highlight the need to balance disease prevention with other societal harm

https://news.umich.edu/americans-prioritized-preventing-lockdown-harms-over-covid-19-deaths/
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u/ma-cachet 1d ago

Thinking some people should die or become disabled from a preventable disease because they don’t want to prevent the disease from spreading is eugenics. Thinking a section of the population should be sacrificed for the economy is eugenics. My biggest take away from the pandemic and the push to “back to normal” is how absolutely pervasive the ideology that some people are disposable is and all it takes to justify disposing of them is any small inconvenience or deviation from what they want to do. People prefer Covid deaths because they see those victims as more disposable due to likely being disabled or of a “lesser” health condition, saying they should die over another group is literally eugenics and that’s my point.

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u/RepentantSororitas 1d ago

Depression is also a preventable disease.

Abuse is not an "inconvenience"

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u/ma-cachet 1d ago

There are other solutions to all of those other factors though. We could have creative solutions as communities to take care of each other and certainly our government should have stepped up to make sure everyone had basic needs. Seeing this as an either or at all is part of the root problem in my opinion. There was only one way to prevent Covid spreading, everything that resulted from the lockdown should have been addressed as it became evident. Abuse certainly isn’t an inconvenience, but neither are disabled people.

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u/RepentantSororitas 1d ago

There are other solutions to all of those other factors though.

Solutions that were out of reach by preventative measures during the pandemic.

We could have creative solutions as communities to take care of each other and certainly our government should have stepped up to make sure everyone had basic needs.

Saying we could doesnt mean jack

everything that resulted from the lockdown should have been addressed as it became evident.

Some things are just impossible if you lockdown. There is no getting around that. Like young children that were in school during 2020 are just fucked.