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I never understood why the right decided to be against logical public health measures and decided to tie their ideaology to it. It never use to be like this. C

• isaacremuant 5y ago
  Actually, the aligned with "US democrats" (not the left, necessarily) made the whole thing political by going against anything Trump did (like banning travel From China being racist or the ties with the lab leak theory). It used to be the left would stand against authoritarianism. Skepticism. Now it's seen as a duty to support corporate interestes, gov excuses, not question anything (or you'll help the right). There's nothing logical about Lockdowns. It was never done before and has done nothing in terms of excess deaths while There's ample examples of the damage and inequality But again, HN types from the laptop class are fine at home, advancing in life, not caring that much about others but pretending they do with the approved virtue signalling. It's disgusting.
  • SamoyedFurFluff 5y ago
    Banning travel from China was a nonsense response because US got exposed via Europe. Similarly, prioritizing investigating the lab leak theory without real evidence at the same time as tons of people were dying seemed messed up.
    • redis_mlc 5y ago
      False: 1) 100,000 passengers per week were arriving from China to the US. Of course, all air travel should have been banned. Which many countries have since done, confirming Trump's decision. 2) any epidemic study starts with finding Patient Zero and the source. Oh, except for corona from Wuhan. Why is that?
• orangecat 5y ago
  Lockdowns are massive restrictions of individual freedom, which is something the right claims to care about and sometimes actually does.