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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.
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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
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