A few words on the first presidential debate

I didn't find much of interest in the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden, but one statement Biden made struck me. I paraphrase:

We can't open up. We need to make businesses safe.

It made me immediately think of selling indulgences.

Yes,

• Biden wants to financially support that. Businesses may not actually need to pay for the safety,
• protective gear might actually save lives (no offense to the Catholic Church intended),

but

• coming out with the protective gear a year after a flu like virus hit seems belated and
• what kind of a public climate are we facing here, where businesses parade their belated protective gear in order to show that they are not murderers?

Is that a vision of a desirable future?

And one more thing, less interesting, but I'll briefly comment: sensitivity training. You know, this is rather ironic, because with all the different cultures on this planet, there is one thing they all agree on:

Don't spoil your children!

Neither the Indians in the Amazon rainforest, nor the Australian aborigines, nor the head hunters of the South Seas thought it wise to engage in sensitivity training, probably because they all believed in

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

or differently put:

If a boy finds understanding for all his whims, he will grow up to be an evil, sadistic man, who even at the age of 80 thinks in his heart that his mother has his back.

 So, sure, what could we want more than to not be insensitive?