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The entire system is political. That's the problem. Imagine you are emperor of whatever country and you're sitting there in February with a potentially very de
by sleepysysadmin 6y ago
The entire system is political. That's the problem.
Imagine you are emperor of whatever country and you're sitting there in February with a potentially very deadly mostly unknown highly contagious virus. You are forced to shutdown.
The problem is that your bias will leak into that shutdown and make the entire situation appear like a conspiracy.
Then people step back and look at the context. Hong Kong Protests, Yellow Vests + french martial law + banning public protests before covid, black lives matter, canadian oil blockade country wide, etc etc.
Every place that had ongoing anti-government protests were quick to jump to lockdowns.
Then came the squashing of free speech. You're not allowed to 'spread misinformation' on covid. Mass arrests of people for 'spreading misinformation'.
Wait, there's a global recession, global protests against government and the government is restricting speech? We're not allowed to talk about it?
What we need to do is similar to the military. Medical decisions are outside the chain of command. Remove the politicians from this equation. Fix the entire problem.