Lawyers are opinionated folks and the American response to COVID seems to be wrong in every conceivable vector — not enough tests, not enough ventilators, closing things down that wouldn’t have needed closing if we’d had enough of the other two — but the place to vent about your issues with the deep state for eating into your profit margin is not the bar association COVID board.
We’re not going to call out anyone specifically here, but there are lawyers hopping on local boards to complain about “idiot politicians” ruining the economy for a disease that isn’t likely to kill. Sadly, we actually wish we were calling out one specific attorney, but this is happening on a few lawyer groups right now. So let’s use this space as a friendly a reminder to these folks that they need to shut the f**k up.
People are going to the local COVID board to write obituaries for fellow attorneys and discuss how they plan to cope with the fallout from the virus. They absolutely aren’t there for your pontification about how we should all lick flagpoles for the economy. Nobody cares here; go find a QAnon board to populate.
It’s about knowing your audience not about trying (and in these cases failing) to be right. When everyone on the board is talking about losing a loved one, it doesn’t actually matter to point out that “well, actually, most people who contract the virus will survive.” Just because it’s true doesn’t make you any less of an asshole.
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