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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by throwawaygh on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:33PM (#24214208)
> I doubt many mayors are supervillains who want to keep people miserable just for the sake of it - but I worry that quite a few might feel like they have to as long as cases are being detected.

Why would they have to? It certainly wouldn't be in their electoral self-interest.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:32PM (#24216003)
The concern is that we might end up in a state where COVID restrictions are considered so obvious that they're not even a matter of electoral self-interest; where abolishing COVID restrictions sounds as extreme as abolishing taxes or abolishing the military. Many people say they don't want the restrictions gone until COVID is eradicated, and I believe they're telling the truth.
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