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Once covid-19/sars-cov-2 is over would you support the same levels of lockdown for car accidents and flu/viral pneumonia? Many more lives could be saved with th
by ShorsHammer 7y ago
Once covid-19/sars-cov-2 is over would you support the same levels of lockdown for car accidents and flu/viral pneumonia? Many more lives could be saved with the same political will and public support you find on this issue.
These lockdowns can clearly prevent the spread of existing diseases and save magnitudes more lives as presented by the article along with the inevitable traffic statistics to come out showing the effects.
I'm wondering how someone here supporting lockdowns can justify not repeating it once this pandemic is over? Is ten young healthy lives taken by cars not worth one old ill one taken by a disease?
- scrollaway 7y agoI wouldn't justify a lockdown for cars because there are other ways to beat cars than locking everyone in their homes. Point: I don't have a car, yet I'm locked in my home right now. Hmmmmm. And yes, I would support forbidding cars altogether for most things they're used for today that can be done with different vehicles.
- frank2 7y agoWould you support forbidding cars in neighborhoods designed around the car, e.g., most American suburbs planned after 1950, or would you limit the ban to neighborhoods planned after the start of the ban?
- scrollaway 7y agoIs my opinion on the exact details of the implementation of a non-existant car ban really that relevant?
- frank2 7y agoI just wanted to see if you have thought through the implications of what you advocated.
- scrollaway 7y agoYou could've just asked :) And yes I have; I've been advocating something similar for years.