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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by naasking on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:52PM (#32945648)
> The fact their effectiveness is still being questioned suggests that we never should have done them in the first place.

Not necessarily. Precautionary principle and all when we didn't know much. Mask mandates aren't that disruptive. Lockdowns obviously more disruptive, and definitely justified at the very beginning when we didn't know anything.

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by spookthesunset on Thursday September 22, 2022 @07:37PM (#32946045)
The era of the precautionary principle ended the day all the field hospitals closed virtually unused. That should have been the complete end of all mandates. Covid clearly wasn’t as bad as what all these “experts” computer models suggested so there was no reason to continue acting out of such great caution.

Instead governors doubled down. That was the end of “science and data” and the beginning of 2.5 years of stupidity.

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