1/ As properly understood, social justice is about the ordering of society in accord with the natural law. Analyzed this way, COVID-19 restrictions have been unjust from the beginning.
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2/ The natural right to labor is sadly neglected in modern Catholic circles. It is better to give charitably than to let a man starve, but it is better still to enable him to provide for himself than require him to subsist on charity forever.
3/ Worse still, the economic effects of lockdown not only infringe the right to labor, but favor the wealthy. The rich, people with savings, and people like me who can work from a computer anywhere suffer nothing, while other people are denied work.
4/ As companies decide they no longer need office buildings, commercial real estate collapses, cities are hollowed-out, and swathes of jobs are in danger of never coming back. This also hits the poor disproportionately.
5/ We are already seeing that distance learning is inferior for children, especially the youngest who depend on the physical presence of the teacher to model social cues, speech, and other behavior. Older kids are failing at elevated rates, even previously capable students.
6/ Even forced masking is unjust for these kids, because the slight risk to them is vastly outweighed by the social and educational benefit of being able to see another human face.
7/ Lockdown violates the right to labor and is intrinsically evil thereby, and the consequentialist justifications for it fall apart when costs/benefits are weighed in light of the data. It's time to apply standard flu mitigations to COVID-19 and end our crazy overreaction.
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