Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
by mistrial9 on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:20PM
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there you go, thinking as an individual -- a voice like a poet. Decisions on governance are made from the point of view of administration .. that is, what are the financial costs, how much attention is on the subject, things like that. The monetary costs to insurers combined with Doctor's Orders (literally) are at stake. Individual people, their work places, social lives, their free will, their own affairs, are counted for naught it seems.
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Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
by mft_ on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:37PM
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How would you balance harm caused to other individuals?
If someone was walking around a mall with Ebola, I'd assume you'd be comfortable with them being restrained and placed in quarantine?
Everyone that contracts COVID and is seriously harmed (or dies) contracted it from someone else - and through different measures, that transmission and death was preventable. And yet, because in the majority of cases, COVID isn't seriously harmful or fatal, it's okay to be part of its transmission to others?
Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
by betwixthewires on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:17AM
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Yes. You've answered your own question, unwittingly, by comparing covid with Ebola and pointing out that in the (vast) majority of cases it is not harmful. The answer is yes. People breathe air. People spend time around each other. These mostly mild yet sometimes deadly illnesses will be transmitted.