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I mean that they have not felt the need to take the extremely aggressive step of suspending their citizens' civil liberties for an arbitrary period of time, and

• yongjik 7y ago
  > ... they have not felt the need to take the extremely aggressive step of suspending their citizens' civil liberties ... If that's your definition of "fine", then when you wrote this: > why are Germany and France fine despite having looser quarantine measures ... were you actually saying: "why are Germany and France having looser quarantine measures despite having looser quarantine measures?" /shakes head
  • leggomylibro 7y ago
    I understand your point of view, but I would phrase it more like: "Why are Germany and France not worse off than Italy despite having looser quarantine measures and an earlier start to their outbreaks?" And I still haven't heard an answer which comes close to justifying Italy suspending its citizens' rights. But that's fine; it won't matter in a few months, and we're approaching an easy opportunity to make money and travel smart as the herds follow their predictable migrations. I just wish that people were less eager to give our fundamental rights away over this; history shows that they are unlikely to come back once they are surrendered. I'm already tired of the CBP shutting down entire 80mph interstates to search every vehicle passing through; where does this end? Anyways, arguing about it is just something to do while everything is shut down, eh? :)