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The history books will not be kind to those that supported lockdowns, nor should they be.

brodouevencode 5y ago
Now that history persists in just about as raw, unadulterated of a form as possible (archived print, video, audio) I would like to see pointed, in-depth analysis of those times in history that were truly inflection points - what did we get right and what did we get wrong? Pull directly from the opinion pieces and headlines from X number of years ago and look at it from a critical eye. People have such short term memory that it would be beneficial to revisit these things.
- Overtonwindow 5y ago
  As well, I would like to see a comparison between a nation's media consumption, and their use of masks and lockdowns. There's a meme going around of why the Amish did not suffer as badly from COVID-19, and the punchline is that they don't have television.
  - JohnDeHope 5y ago
    There was one meme that struck me as perfectly captioned. A circa 60s image of a person's arms throwing a TV out an upper story window, with the tag line "first step to fight coronavirus".
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- jokethrowaway 5y ago
  All lockdowns are a violation of our freedom. Just because you're punching me instead of shooting me, it doesn't mean you're not assaulting me.
  - PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
    I'm assuming you are talking about the US... which freedoms were violated?
    - nradov 5y ago
      The freedom of peaceable assembly, as mentioned in the 1st Amendment.
      - PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
        How was this violated?
- antisinguIarity 5y ago
  Which part of the US do you live in, where you had a wonderfully short 2 week lockdown?
- infamouscow 5y ago
  > I honestly have to chuckle at the delusional victim complex people have to give themselves as some kind of validation for their beliefs. Okay, jackass. If you're going to say something so incendiary, I'm going to assume your feelings apply consistently across all issues. Things like racism, sexism, transgender rights, climate, and others that don't immediately come to mind. After all, if you're so cavalier in dismissing the pain of other humans on one problem, it stands to reason you're as cold regarding other problems. At the very least, this makes you insensitive. On the other end, you're unwelcome here and you should fuck off.
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  - dang 5y ago
    Please don't break the HN guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. The GP comment was also breaking the guidelines but you went way over the line here. That's not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AnEro 5y ago
You should look at what we did for the spanish flu before you get all high and mighty about your history take
- Bombthecat 5y ago
  You mean what people did? They kept doing parties in empty houses.
antisinguIarity 5y ago
Our response to Covid will be recorded as one of the largest outbreaks of mass hysteria in history.
tablespoon 5y ago
> The history books will not be kind to those that supported lockdowns, nor should they be. The history books won't be kind to the people who resisted them either. IMHO, if this era has any particular significance at all, it will be a story of a crack up before a long term, shambolic decline. The future belongs to the societies that can come together. If this were the 40s, the lock-down resisters would be agitating against rationing instead of mending and making do and collecting stuff for scrap metal drives.

Now that history persists in just about as raw, unadulterated of a form as possible (archived print, video, audio) I would like to see pointed, in-depth analysis of those times in history that were truly inflection points - what did we get right and what did we get wrong? Pull directly from the opinion pieces and headlines from X number of years ago and look at it from a critical eye. People have such short term memory that it would be beneficial to revisit these things.

Overtonwindow 5y ago
As well, I would like to see a comparison between a nation's media consumption, and their use of masks and lockdowns. There's a meme going around of why the Amish did not suffer as badly from COVID-19, and the punchline is that they don't have television.
- JohnDeHope 5y ago
  There was one meme that struck me as perfectly captioned. A circa 60s image of a person's arms throwing a TV out an upper story window, with the tag line "first step to fight coronavirus".

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jokethrowaway 5y ago
All lockdowns are a violation of our freedom. Just because you're punching me instead of shooting me, it doesn't mean you're not assaulting me.
- PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
  I'm assuming you are talking about the US... which freedoms were violated?
  - nradov 5y ago
    The freedom of peaceable assembly, as mentioned in the 1st Amendment.
    - PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
      How was this violated?
antisinguIarity 5y ago
Which part of the US do you live in, where you had a wonderfully short 2 week lockdown?
infamouscow 5y ago
> I honestly have to chuckle at the delusional victim complex people have to give themselves as some kind of validation for their beliefs. Okay, jackass. If you're going to say something so incendiary, I'm going to assume your feelings apply consistently across all issues. Things like racism, sexism, transgender rights, climate, and others that don't immediately come to mind. After all, if you're so cavalier in dismissing the pain of other humans on one problem, it stands to reason you're as cold regarding other problems. At the very least, this makes you insensitive. On the other end, you're unwelcome here and you should fuck off.
- 1270018080 5y ago
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't break the HN guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. The GP comment was also breaking the guidelines but you went way over the line here. That's not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

AnEro 5y ago

You should look at what we did for the spanish flu before you get all high and mighty about your history take

Bombthecat 5y ago
You mean what people did? They kept doing parties in empty houses.

antisinguIarity 5y ago

Our response to Covid will be recorded as one of the largest outbreaks of mass hysteria in history.

tablespoon 5y ago

> The history books will not be kind to those that supported lockdowns, nor should they be. The history books won't be kind to the people who resisted them either. IMHO, if this era has any particular significance at all, it will be a story of a crack up before a long term, shambolic decline. The future belongs to the societies that can come together. If this were the 40s, the lock-down resisters would be agitating against rationing instead of mending and making do and collecting stuff for scrap metal drives.