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No, not at all. Lockdowns, quarantining and other human rights violations don't help us get rid of the pandemic, they prolong it. To end the pandemic faster, mo
by anoncake 6y ago
No, not at all. Lockdowns, quarantining and other human rights violations don't help us get rid of the pandemic, they prolong it. To end the pandemic faster, more people need to get exposed to the virus.
- outworlder 6y agoPlease take this rhetoric elsewhere. No human rights are being violated. We are trying to protect people and buying time until all can be immunized (or, if vaccines didn't exist, allowing health care facilities to handle the load). We KNOW containment measures work (Ebola, SARS). If you expose more people to a virus, you risk making the pandemic much worse. Or deadly. Viruses mutate. Every new person exposed is a potential laboratory.
- anoncake 6y agoMutating viruses tend to get less deadly, not more. Killing its host does not benefit it. Of course containment measures work -- for keeping 80 year olds (and few other people) alive for a little bit longer at the expense of everyone else.
- call_me_dana 6y agoYou can contract covid, have it mutate and also spread it to others even if you’ve been vaccinated. There’s supposedly less of a chance to do this if you’re vaccinated but with for profit corporations funding most of the science it should all be taken with a grain of salt.
- adenner 6y agoWhile yes, that is one possible way to reach herd immunity. At what human cost?
- anoncake 6y agoNot low, but still lower than that of lockdowns and quarantines, closed schools, etc.