In what world is stopping a deadly disease that also paralyzes healthcare for everyone abuse? The virus is abusing us, that's for sure. Unfortunately it doesn't quite adhere to law, otherwise tens of thousands of people more would still be alive in my country. The only way to stand up to a force of nature like that is to stick to some common sense rules as a society, like "let's avoid crowds" or "let's all get vaccines".

> a deadly disease that also paralyzes healthcare

VS.

a tyrannical government that is ever encroaching on our freedoms using scare tactics.

It used to be terrorism.

I suppose we're both kinda motivated by fear here, I'm just way more afraid of losing my freedoms than I am COVID.

The same messaging system that brought us the `terror meter` and pegged it to red

https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/terr...

is providing similar hyperbolic messaging about COVID.

Terrorism very broadly kills a couple hundred people a year in the developed world, and has been around that for a long time. Obviously it's a bogus excuse most of the time.

Meanwhile, this particular virus has correspondingly killed ~10 000 times more people. That is not hyperbole. That's not even comparable to terrorism, much more like a war instead.

How many people died of the flu this year?

Perhaps somewhat paradoxically, much fewer than usual. Partly because some that might have, in stead died from Covid-19, and partly because the countermeasures against SARS-CoV are also very effective against a lot of other diseases like the flu.

Why; does that have anything to do with anything? Naah, thought not.