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Re:Norwegian Covid-19 contact tracing app banned by the Data... by nashalo_nighly on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:43PM (#25106116)
These measures are common sense during a pandemic and should be limited in time. In many countries (at least France and UK) all these measures are bound in time and the time mandate is regularly renewed by parliament.
Re:Norwegian Covid-19 contact tracing app banned by the Data... by teh_infallible on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:29PM (#25106488)
If locking everyone in their homes and pressuring them to wear surgical masks everywhere were “common sense,” they would be common practices already. They make no sense from a health perspective. The idea that healers should wield total power over the economy is similarly new.
Re:Norwegian Covid-19 contact tracing app banned by the Data... by bigiain on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:37PM (#25106553)
The people of Melbourne/Victoria in Australia would like a word...

They went from a "second wave" of over 700 new cases a day, to just having hit 16 consecutive days of zero new cases - all due to lockdown restrictions and mask wearing.

It was tough on people. But it worked.

Looking at numbers like 160,000 new cases a day is horrifying. Death rates seem to be globally hovering right around 0.5% - that's a lot of dead people...

Re:Norwegian Covid-19 contact tracing app banned by the Data... by ephimetheus on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:44AM (#25108828)
What you’re claiming to make “no sense” is working right now in France and Germany, among others. Your convenience is not more important than other people’s lives.