The irrationality and egregious irresponsibility of current COVID approaches

Right from the start of this pandemic, the issue of deaths has been crucial to economic performance: the more deaths, the greater the adverse impact on the economy. This was re-emphasised when businesses drove a reopening of the economy, and face-to-face serving quickly found they couldn't get staff because they were all becoming ill with COVID. 

Other businesses, I suspect, are also finding that the drive to get people back into the office - generally for spurious reasons related to managerial thinking from the 1850s (i.e., the "if I can't see them working, how do I know they're working?" rubbish).

Yes, we need to get people out and about for the sake of some businesses. 

But for ****'s sake, do it as if you were mature adults - wear masks, maintain social distancing, wash hands, avoid "presenteeism" when ill, and support people who are vulnerable (which includes me). 

I've seen work photos of people face by face for selfies, presentation ceremonies where people were ordered to take their masks off, and people being flippant about the pandemic. 

That is irrational, egregiously irresponsible, and, frankly, verging on being insane (there are major personality/morality flaws at play). 

This pandemic is one of more to come as we continue to destroy this plant's natural world: learn NOW so that the next one can be better managed. 

PS - evidence-based decision making sounds good - and is clearly legally defensible, but the problem is the "evidence" is often limited to the current problem. If we had also used the evidence from past pandemics to promote infection-control (even if that was optional) earlier, we would ultimately have been better off as a society. It would also have been good to have respected public figures addressing the morality flaws of the denialist nutters, but I don't know that there are any respected public figures these days - they've all destroyed themselves, one way or another.