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> The notion that regular people should restrict their lifestyles and submit to mandates indefinitely over a virus with a >99% survival rate was always stupid.
by PartiallyTyped 4y ago
> The notion that regular people should restrict their lifestyles and submit to mandates indefinitely over a virus with a >99% survival rate was always stupid.
We didnt know that at the time. The statistics at the time showed a very different story.
You can compare the handling of the situation across countries and regions with similar socioeconomic conditions and observe that certain states performed significantly worse than counterparts outside.
I didn’t speak about indefinite mandates either and mentioned Denmark repeatedly, for a good reason.
In Denmark we didn’t have vaccine or mask mandates, and opened well before most countries in January of 2022 while sustaining far fewer deaths compared to say Sweden.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoCorrection, you had the option of wearing a mask or being vaccinated, depending on the kind of establishment. For metro masks were required. In other spaces, masks were required when moving around, but not when sitting.