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> Living your life like a prisoner because some authority tells you you need to be scared of this is unacceptable to me and.in all honesty I would rather be dea

> Living your life like a prisoner because some authority tells you you need to be scared of this is unacceptable to me and.in all honesty I would rather be dead then live in a world like that. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines are meant to be temporary until 1) treatments for Covid-19 are available 2) a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 is available 3) and/or immunity is widespread. Your rhetorical posture makes sense if you live in a dictatorship and are confined from now on. However, if you live, say, in the US (which I do), such posturing and impatience seem counterproductive.

finnthehuman 7y ago
>Stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines are meant to be temporary until It's funny how quickly the goalposts moved from "flattening the curve" to "vaccine or widespread immunity." Unless we move back to a "let everyone get sick at the fastest rate that doesn't overwhelm the hospital system" then I'm stuck inside based on lies, by a government that likes flexing it's muscle more than providing the liberty they're ostensibly be principled upon.
- mistersquid 7y ago
  > It's funny how quickly the goalposts moved from "flattening the curve" to "vaccine or widespread immunity." There has been no "goalposts moved". Flattening the curve has been and continues to be effective to maintain hospital capacity. Period. Social distancing and shelter-at-home prevent viral contagion. Eliminating social distancing and easing shelter-at-home restrictions may spike the infection rate, which would undo efforts to flatten the curve. Hospital capacity would diminish or possibly disappear. Your objection about "goalposts moved" makes no sense in light of the basic logic that flattening the curve is ongoing until the virus can be nullified.
thu2111 7y ago
No, they were meant to exist only to avoid hospital overflow. The vast majority of hospitals haven't come close to overflow despite a strong belief by governments that they would even with social distancing, ergo, the predictions justifying the lockdowns are invalidated and it should be ending already.

finnthehuman 7y ago

>Stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines are meant to be temporary until It's funny how quickly the goalposts moved from "flattening the curve" to "vaccine or widespread immunity." Unless we move back to a "let everyone get sick at the fastest rate that doesn't overwhelm the hospital system" then I'm stuck inside based on lies, by a government that likes flexing it's muscle more than providing the liberty they're ostensibly be principled upon.

mistersquid 7y ago
> It's funny how quickly the goalposts moved from "flattening the curve" to "vaccine or widespread immunity." There has been no "goalposts moved". Flattening the curve has been and continues to be effective to maintain hospital capacity. Period. Social distancing and shelter-at-home prevent viral contagion. Eliminating social distancing and easing shelter-at-home restrictions may spike the infection rate, which would undo efforts to flatten the curve. Hospital capacity would diminish or possibly disappear. Your objection about "goalposts moved" makes no sense in light of the basic logic that flattening the curve is ongoing until the virus can be nullified.

thu2111 7y ago

No, they were meant to exist only to avoid hospital overflow. The vast majority of hospitals haven't come close to overflow despite a strong belief by governments that they would even with social distancing, ergo, the predictions justifying the lockdowns are invalidated and it should be ending already.