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> Covid was a massive IQ test Compliance with the COVID response is more a indicator of trust in public institutions than it is an IQ test. You could argue not

• mindslight 5y ago
  Mask wearing in particular requires no trust in public institutions, just basic reasoning about airborne particles. If that's too technical for some, it has also been shown in every single movie about pandemics. The sheer number of people still rejecting this straightforward mitigation indicates that their bad decisions have little to do with distrusting institutions. Rather the problem is their trusting malevolent leaders who have been misleading them. As for "closed borders", I've never seen this referenced as a natural "right". Yet here it is dressed up as one, even though it is ultimately a collectivist action rather than an individual ability. You can of course still argue the benefits of closed borders, and five years ago I would have been sympathetic (the enthusiastic ignorance movement has since burned my assumption of their good faith). It's just specious to call it a "right".
  • captainredbeard 5y ago
    Masks aren't very useful at stopping viral spread and have traditionally been limited to mitigating bacterial shedding in environments where that was key, such as surgery. Since time immemorial, a fundamental right has been warding off invaders of varying forms, armed or not. Exclusion of uninvited parties from a piece of land is one of the oldest things in Western civ.