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Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by mft_ on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:37PM (#29312411)
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?

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Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by betwixthewires on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:17AM (#29319595)
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.
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