Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein...
by tptacek on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:14PM
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Thankfully, you appear to be overwhelmingly outvoted in this "let's set up a peeing section for the swimming pool" position. Lockdown measures and the activist governors pursuing them are, for the moment, overwhelmingly popular --- the population as a whole is strongly more concerned that lockdowns will end too early, and strongly more worried that they will suffer health consequences from C19 than that they'll suffer economic consequences from lockdown.
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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein...
by djrogers on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:23PM
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Sadly you seem to be of the opinion that we can cower in our homes until the disease magically goes away. That's not the way this works - it doesn't just go away.
I'm really disturbed by the number of people who seem to be perfectly happy moving the goalposts for these lockdowns as long as they're politically popular. Here's a hint - freedom and constitutional rights weren't intended to be politically popular (or particularly safe) as the popular opinions don't need protection.
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein...
by jshevek on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:27PM
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I understand people have strong feelings on this issue, but you can argue your position without using language like "cower" and "magically".
Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein...
by tptacek on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:25PM
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This isn't responsive to anything I'm saying; it merely repeats points you've made earlier more emotively.
I think you're going to find that the message board logic of "a-ha, I read a tweet that says the goal of lockdown is flattening the curve; now that curves may be flattening lockdown has to end" isn't going to get you very far in the real world.