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Old Jun 13, 2020, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by BethRags View Post
Okay, I would agree - except that almost all businesses here are open now, 3 months after the shut-down. So we have open bars, but have to do teletherapy. I can't understand that.
I understand what you're saying, but if the logic is that because bars are open, everything else should be too, I don't really agree. It's kind of like when people say well I can go off and die for my country at 18, so we should lower the legal age for x, y, and z to 18. To me the issue is that you can go off and die for your country at age 18, not that you have to be older to do x, y, and z - so this approach to the issue would make everything even worse. Instead of being only partially screwed up, it would be completely screwed up.

As far as teletherapy goes, though, I hadn't heard of therapy being literally not allowed to happen in person. In my state at least, I think it was up to individual therapists. Therapy is considered healthcare, and there was certainly a lot of pressure on therapists to do it remotely, but I'm not sure that a therapist continuing to do remote when other things have opened is because they are actually being restricted.
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