Yeah, I worried the reference to Nazism would set people off. It comes off like Godwin’s law. But I didn’t make the comparison lightly, I literally mean that th

Yeah, I worried the reference to Nazism would set people off. It comes off like Godwin’s law. But I didn’t make the comparison lightly, I literally mean that this type of blind obedience to authority is literally what allows factions like the Nazis to come to power. In any case, I take solace in the fact that pretty much all of my comments in this thread are more or less equally downvoted :P I’ve had to stop browsing HN as much during covid because people here tend to be very rabid about this issue. I am shocked how normalized the idea of forcible business closures and total bans on population movement for years (“until the vaccine”) has become. All to avoid a virus that spreads so well that even literal islands (NZ) have been unable to contain it, which has per the CDC a .65% IFR (I personally think the real figure is .3%), and which unlike Influenza does not kill children. But I digress.