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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by joe_the_user on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:04PM (#22580554)
Shame on her

People should stay where they are. Lockdown is not a disaster. People fleeing lockdown are literally the carriers of this disaster.

Stay where you are, wait. Don't travel. Don't fight the locdown. Lockdown is the current, appropriate course of action. A very effective lockdown can eliminate the infection in, well, however long it took to eliminate it in Wuhan.

Fleeing the lockdown now is just going to another area that is going to be on lockdown later on anyway.

Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by terramex on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:14PM (#22580608)
People should stay where they are. Lockdown is not a disaster. People fleeing lockdown are literally the carriers of this disaster.

There will be test of this thesis in Poland soon. As government closed down universities, some of them told students that they have to vacate their dormitories and go back home (dormitories are usually occupied by students from countryside and smaller cities), and it caused massive migration. It is already confirmed that students in my city were infected for two weeks, but is not known yet how widespread it was. To make situation worse, some dormitories are now being turned into quarantine hotels, so students are told to come back and take their belongings with them (initially they were told they can leave their stuff behind).

Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by inferiorhuman on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:04AM (#22581663)
Universities in the United States are doing the same thing. Stanford, for instance, is evicting its dorm population.
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by warent on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:11PM (#22580600)
I didn't see them say anything about "fleeing a lockdown." She was fleeing a potentially life-threatening virus in a scary situation in order to be with her family. That isn't so hard to grok, and obviously she felt she was making the right decision. Shaming someone for looking for security and safety in a scary situation (i.e. for being human) is just absurd.
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by joe_the_user on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:33PM (#22580717)
She was fleeing a potentially life-threatening virus in a scary situation in order to be with her family.

I hate to put this harshly but... She may well be fleeing with a life threatening virus that will kill her family. This has happened already, even documented, in China.

We can't look to our own comfort at this point. All my family visits are postponed and my food is mostly stocked up.

And it's a hard situation where we won't all make the best choices but still want to pressure everyone to make the appropriate choices.

Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by fuzzfactor on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:17PM (#22587325)
>She was fleeing a potentially life-threatening virus in a scary situation in order to be with her family.

True.

>She may well be fleeing with a life threatening virus that will kill her family.

And true.

Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by stan_rogers on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:18PM (#22580627)
Shaming somebody for potentially spreading a disease, on the other hand, is precisely the sort of thing that needs to happen in a situation like this. Epidemics don't give a tinker's damn for anyone's feelings.
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by hatenberg on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:23PM (#22580667)
We elect governments to protect us from our own fight-or-flight response which is not a good thing in modern society
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by fuzzfactor on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:14PM (#22587304)
>Fleeing the lockdown now is just going to another area that is going to be on lockdown later on anyway.

This is readily recognized.

And this can be motivation enough to relocate to a chosen area for upcoming lockdown, while some choice is still possible.

Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by arvinsim on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:31PM (#22581007)
To think that with the modern internet, there should be less incentive to be physically present.