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THEY are the ones who need to take extra precautions.
by jaywalk 7y ago
THEY are the ones who need to take extra precautions.
- quicklime 7y agoNo, your right to shed virus particles ends at the tip of my nose.
- jaywalk 7y agoThat's a nice platitude you've got there. Too bad it means basically nothing.
- arblify 7y agoIt actually does mean something, which is that freedom is not unlimited. Your freedom of action ends at the point where it harms someone else. Classically, "your right to throw your fist ends at my face." It's the same reason (legally) you can't point a firearm at me. What we have here is the problem that merely by breathing around someone, you can cause them harm. Unfortunately we lack the ability to determine whether or not you will, but given the contagiousness of this disease if you are infected (or become infected) it is quite likely.
- tptacek 7y agoThankfully, you appear to be overwhelmingly outvoted in this "let's set up a peeing section for the swimming pool" position. Lockdown measures and the activist governors pursuing them are, for the moment, overwhelmingly popular --- the population as a whole is strongly more concerned that lockdowns will end too early, and strongly more worried that they will suffer health consequences from C19 than that they'll suffer economic consequences from lockdown.
- random314 7y ago> let's set up a peeing section for the swimming pool" position Ha ha. I am going to borrow that line.
- djrogers 7y agoSadly you seem to be of the opinion that we can cower in our homes until the disease magically goes away. That's not the way this works - it doesn't just go away. I'm really disturbed by the number of people who seem to be perfectly happy moving the goalposts for these lockdowns as long as they're politically popular. Here's a hint - freedom and constitutional rights weren't intended to be politically popular (or particularly safe) as the popular opinions don't need protection.
- tptacek 7y agoThis isn't responsive to anything I'm saying; it merely repeats points you've made earlier more emotively. I think you're going to find that the message board logic of "a-ha, I read a tweet that says the goal of lockdown is flattening the curve; now that curves may be flattening lockdown has to end" isn't going to get you very far in the real world.
- allq 7y agoThe only one here parroting message boards in a pseudo-intellectual manner is our HN internet points medalist.
- jshevek 7y agoI understand people have strong feelings on this issue, but you can argue your position without using language like "cower" and "magically".
- matchbok 7y agoThese lockdowns are very much constitutional. Perhaps you should actually read it.
- jkasdflklzxcv 7y agoYou are a fascist.