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Re:Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths by ameminator on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:55AM (#28849485)
I really liked the Chinese policy of welding people in their homes (where some starved to death) and lying to the populace about the real numbers and severity of the coronavirus.
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Re:Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths by whimsicalism on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:52AM (#28852902)
Yeah, when there's a deadly pandemic, some people will need to be quarantined.

I liked the bit where 3 million people didn't die, whereas 700k people died here.

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Re:Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths by ameminator on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:46PM (#28855824)
There are some things the government just shouldn't be able to do, regardless of the justification. One of those things is locking people in their homes for an indeterminate amount of time.
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Re:Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths by whimsicalism on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:46AM (#28860610)
Only in cages away from their homes?

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...

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