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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by mrtksn on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:02PM (#28459018)
Talk to your local lockdown provider if you are not happy with the results.

Done properly, of course a lockdown would be effective. Why? Because of the Germ theory. The viruses exist and they don't teleport.

If anything, I would have much preferred if we had a month of global lockdown instead of years of slow burn battle. We wouldn't have had to convince people for vaccination too. It worked for Wuhan.

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by hunterb123 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:33PM (#28459481)
No, locking down for an indoor virus is stupid.

Vitamin D and open air works, not lock downs.

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by mrtksn on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:36PM (#28459528)
I am all in for spreading the population sparsely under the sun for a month(I'll take the Greece beaches or the French Riviera). We can make the immunes ones prepare the food and bring the beer.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by hunterb123 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:39PM (#28459569)
Well that's a large swing in the other direction, but I enjoy the hyperbole. You do realize lockdowns are the far other direction though? Do you see my point why lockdowns were bad?

Allowing and encouraging people to go outside is the happy medium.

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by mrtksn on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:44PM (#28459642)
The idea is to separate people from each other for long enough for the virus to die off. Could be done in many ways. Accommodating people in small separate groups for a month under the sun has it's practicality issues but if someone can pull it off the results would be exactly the same.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by hunterb123 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:46PM (#28459669)
That idea is stupid when the high density areas live in multi-family housing.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by modzu on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:48PM (#28459701)
do you know what would happen if everybody on earth gave themselves 6 feet of space from each other for 14 days? the same thing that would happen if you teleported the virus to the moon. why didnt anyone think of that!
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