Re:The Price of Covid Freedom May Be Eternal Spying
by keenmaster on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:03PM
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I am not arguing in favor of further lockdown. I think we should partially relax the lockdown for everyone who is not “at risk,” but with proper mitigations:
1. Obligatory masks (freely provided by the government)
2. Social distancing and limitations on large or dense gatherings. Special policies should be rolled out for each sector (offices, restaurants, etc...)
3. Contact tracing apps
4. Greater testing (not necessarily population-wide, but a lot more than what is currently available)
5. Free delivery of essential goods for the at-risk population, and potentially subsidized delivery for non-essential goods
Because of the OP, I was mostly addressing mitigation #3.
People put other people at risk by driving. Heck, a big tree in a public place is a risk due to the potential for falling limbs. Are you against those things, too?
This whole argument seems to be about the people who feel vulnerable to the disease having to go to grocery stores to get food.
If the government would supply clean food to those people, it would seem that we'd no longer have to metaphorically lock everyone in chains in order to save the few.