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If the government is going to tell me I can't leave my house, I want that decision being made by an elected official with some accountability to the public, not
by throwaway201103 6y ago
If the government is going to tell me I can't leave my house, I want that decision being made by an elected official with some accountability to the public, not by a staff doctor of some sort.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI hear you, and I understand your reasoning. And yet... Let's say it's an election year, and the decision is going to be made just a few months before the election. Let's say that the lives saved by a stay-at-home order will be mostly saved after the election, but the pain of the lockdown will be before it. (If any of that sounds familiar, it should.) Now how much do you trust your elected official? Still more than the doctor? I trust the doctor to be non-political. Sometimes I really need that. I trust the elected official to more politically cued in. Sometimes we need that. I don't know how to pick. I want a balance, not one or the other.
- xxpor 6y agoIn Ohio, the only person in county government with power to arrest the (elected) sheriff is the (elected) coroner.