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No democratic country is built to handle something like a pandemic. That much became clear the last two years. You need to be able to mandate strict laws that t
by elorant 5y ago
No democratic country is built to handle something like a pandemic. That much became clear the last two years. You need to be able to mandate strict laws that take away a lot of liberties that we have learn to consider as standard.
- novaRom 5y agoMany countries do currently mandate strict laws that take away a lot of liberties. Australia, Canada, Europe, parts of US. Are they still democracies?
- LilBytes 5y agoAbsolutely not, have you seen Fox News. Us over here in Australia are absolutely needing to be liberated by the US. I can't wait till the Marines roll in. Its terrifying, over here in Brisbane, Queensland. We've had one locally acquired case from Covid in the last few months. We're going to pubs, no masks, No Covid. But we're sorely missing our freedom. /s
- vinay427 5y agoWhile I don’t believe this was true across Australia at certain points in the pandemic, your point is definitely taken and I would agree with the message. However, I don’t understand the US-centric (satirical) perspective in a comment like this. The article is about Germany, the person you replied to made no specific mention of the US as far as I can tell, and their view is not unusual in many other regions of the world (such as the one I live in). Does the radicalism of Fox News really need more attention or notoriety?
- LilBytes 5y agoFair comment. Fox News certainly does not need any more attention.
- jseban 5y agoNo they are not. If you can declare a state emergency in the name of public health without quantifying it in any way, and bypassing any forms of debates or elections or votes (one expert said something), that's for sure not a democracy.
- furgooswft13 5y agoNorth Korea also claims to be a democracy.
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- omegaworks 5y agoVietnam had zero covid deaths until summer of 2020.
- xdennis 5y ago> No democratic country is built to handle something like a pandemic. That much became clear the last two years. Much of the measures have been justified by saying they're temporary in place under the emergency. Two years of temporary measures, and now people are saying they need to be permanent.
- elorant 5y agoWe had to have stricter rules from day one. Also make vaccination mandatory. Take the hard decisions in the start instead of let this thing dragging for years before you decide to take the political cost. I live in Europe and watching this thing unravel it has been one clusterfuck after another. Lockdowns which weren't actually lockdowns except for closed shops, mandatory masks without any supervision so it's all comes down to personal responsibility, summers where all rules were suspended so we can welcome tourists, and so on and so forth. I'm sick and tired of it all. We need politicians to act like adults.