Well, I won't tell the people who have lost their jobs that they are free to choose a new one, anyway. That's pretty cynical if they lost their jobs due to the measures, especially if they can't get a new one due to the pandemic still going on. Just as you have your anecdotes about people being lucky to get new jobs, I have my own about people being not so lucky, and having enormous problems now.
Lets start with the obvious: How can you prove, that the jobs where lost due to the pandemic?
And not, for example, of more mundane issues, like for example the business simply being ineffective and so crusted that its impossible to adapt to changing markets?
And why are those jobs lost then - because of the measures to stop it or the uncertainty that the pandemic causes if not stopped? For example: Have people stopped buying cars because the pandemic measures prevent them from buying new cars? Or because they are more careful with such investments as long as they don't know how things turn out? Are automobile subcontractors suffering trouble from the pandemic measures, or rather because the big OEMs are both reducing their investments in times of uncertainty AND go on with the strategy that already started in 2017, which meant that they are developing more components and software in-house?
You know, this ain't socialism here. Even though politicians try their best to turn this into one, if enough corruption flows back to them (See the CDU here as example now, as one politician managed to exceed the tolerable level of corruption for German standards...)...
I had studied some business administration in the past years and enjoy reading the mandatory annual reports of companies, which is a great fun if you like new creative ways of how to mention business risks as optimistic as you can still conform to the laws
And you sadly, avoid the most critical ethic question: Let us assume, there would be no rules. No laws. No politicians you can blame. Just you and the rest of humanity. A real anarchic utopia. How would you act, considering the facts, that we have after 14 months of pandemic? Which kind of actions and principles would you consider important enough that everybody could act this way? Lets enjoy some game theory: Would you go full egoism, like many already do, assuming that those who care and those who have something more to lose than their habits, will change their behaviour enough that you can profit from them? Will you go to the opposite extreme, of people panicing and restricting themselves heavily because they have to assume that others will let them die, because they are considered less important as some play money?
