The high price of mistrust

Re:The high price of mistrust by AZRS on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:36AM (#25905143)

In 5 years you might not be able to tell who supported totalitarian lockdowns, forcing healthy people to sacrifice their physical and mental health, their jobs, etc in order to keep the wealthy retired and the weak from having to experience hardship.

You won't know who you can't trust to not be a fascist who would gladly see your life ruined for going outside alone, because it's "against the lockdown rules".

That is, you won't be able to tell who is someone like you.

Get it?

Your own words are taking what's left of trust, pissing all over it, covering it in petrol, and setting it on fire, then saying "shame that those other guys ruined everything".

Jesus wept.

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Re:The high price of mistrust by roywiggins on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:43AM (#25905265)

I'm talking about people choosing not to wear masks, that's all. Wearing a mask hurts nobody, and it probably helps your neighbors.

(incidentally, social cohesion is what makes draconian lockdowns less justifiable. If everyone chooses to social distance and wear a mask when asked to by competent public health bodies, you can go a long way toward getting a handle on this thing. It's only when social cohesion is at a low ebb that the political drive for enforcing it with police powers kicks in)

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