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The problem is that they aren't afraid enough - otherwise they'd be pushing to bring this pandemic under control.

xyzzyz 4y ago
I’d rather bring under control people who are trying to prevent my children from having normal life. We all had Covid already (likely even twice). We are done with the theater. We don’t want to listen to scaremongering. We want to smile in public. We want to breathe freely. We don’t want or need any more boosters. If you like the restrictions, wear a mask, or just stay home permanently, I don’t care. Just don’t force me and my children into literally faceless, anti-social dystopia.
- somewhereoutth 4y ago
  There is a big policy space between "We are done with the theatre" and "literally faceless, anti-social dystopia". Unfortunately many of the policies in that space will negatively effect powerful vested interests (see climate change, see health reform, see food standards, see police training, see banking, see...). Such vested interests have expended vast amounts of effort to convince the 'ordinary person' that nothing can be done - or equivalently, that the only things that would work would end our way of life as we know it. I'm sorry you seem to have been caught up in that.
  - IdEntities 4y ago
    What do you think would work, exactly? From where I'm sitting, the large vested interests you're pointing to benefitted enormously from the COVID response, especially the lockdowns which destroyed around a third of small businesses and concentrated that market share upward.
nradov 4y ago
What does "under control" even mean? The virus is here to stay no matter what we do. Everyone will be exposed. Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments are fairly effective at preventing deaths. I'm not even slightly afraid. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

I’d rather bring under control people who are trying to prevent my children from having normal life. We all had Covid already (likely even twice). We are done with the theater. We don’t want to listen to scaremongering. We want to smile in public. We want to breathe freely. We don’t want or need any more boosters. If you like the restrictions, wear a mask, or just stay home permanently, I don’t care. Just don’t force me and my children into literally faceless, anti-social dystopia.

somewhereoutth 4y ago
There is a big policy space between "We are done with the theatre" and "literally faceless, anti-social dystopia". Unfortunately many of the policies in that space will negatively effect powerful vested interests (see climate change, see health reform, see food standards, see police training, see banking, see...). Such vested interests have expended vast amounts of effort to convince the 'ordinary person' that nothing can be done - or equivalently, that the only things that would work would end our way of life as we know it. I'm sorry you seem to have been caught up in that.
- IdEntities 4y ago
  What do you think would work, exactly? From where I'm sitting, the large vested interests you're pointing to benefitted enormously from the COVID response, especially the lockdowns which destroyed around a third of small businesses and concentrated that market share upward.

nradov 4y ago

What does "under control" even mean? The virus is here to stay no matter what we do. Everyone will be exposed. Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments are fairly effective at preventing deaths. I'm not even slightly afraid. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646