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You can't see someone catch COVID-19. You can't see someone infected with COVID-19. You can see someone drink a beer. You can see someone acting as though they

You can't see someone catch COVID-19. You can't see someone infected with COVID-19. You can see someone drink a beer. You can see someone acting as though they were drunk. You can't have a free society without assuming a high degree of risk, period. That's part of the deal. You want a large amount of freedom, you have to accept a large amount of risk. People who can't cope with that need to realize America is not the place for them. I will actively work against people who want to reduce freedoms in America - of all kinds. Freedom is hard, requires work, and sometimes sucks. That's part of the deal.

pdonis 6y ago
> You can't see someone catch COVID-19. You can't see someone infected with COVID-19. This particular problem, though, seems like the kind of problem that is amenable to a techno-solution. If there were a quick way to scan someone to see if they were shedding SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, you could see who was infected, or at least who was contagious, which is the thing to be worried about. Attempts to, for example, take people's temperature before entering a hospital or nursing facility as a visitor are attempts at this sort of technical solution, though of course they are much less accurate than a hypothetical "who is shedding virus particles" detector would be. So this case would seem to go against the point of the article that started this thread discussion; in a free society, technosolutionism is often the best fix.