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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by angelzen on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:13PM (#28464632)
TSA doesn't go around saying 'we are here to waste your time and humiliate you'. They are also saving lives. In perpetuity.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:36PM (#28465217)
A negligible number of lives. All terrorist attacks in US history combined resulted in less than three days worth of COVID-19 deaths.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by angelzen on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:53PM (#28465326)
All the more reason to keep draconian covid measures in place in perpetuity. Covid passports, lockdowns, masks, forced vax.

Sometimes I picture our anti-covid measures as piling sandbags in front of a tsunami. Might hold back the water for a little while, but won't do much in the long term.

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by newswasboring on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:47AM (#28466696)
They can go around staying whatever they want. But the fact is they have never had nor will they ever have the statistical basis that covid regulations have. I can, right now, google covid and be presented with all statistics broken down by days, countries, continents etc. We can start comparing TSA and covid when TSA starts presenting their statistics.
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