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> You’re on a slippery slope and don’t consider that this is an exceptional situation. The basis for those civil liberties is a document written by people accu
by tengbretson 7y ago
> You’re on a slippery slope and don’t consider that this is an exceptional situation.
The basis for those civil liberties is a document written by people accustomed to seeing 400k Europeans die of smallpox every year.
- glitcher 7y agoDespite all their best efforts at studying the effective transmission rate, wearing PPE, and developing treatment drugs and vaccines! Yeah, seems like an equivalent comparison to me.
- yellowapple 7y agoIf anything that only proves the GP's point. During the mentioned time period the only solution was to infringe on civil liberties by imposing a strict quarantine, and yet the people of the day still decided that it was better to die free than to live oppressed.