Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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EricHiggin said:

curl-6 said:

People can't always be free to choose because then you end up with many people dying as the result of the selfish actions of a few who refuse to behave responsibly. Absolute individualism is impractical, you can't have rights without responsibilities. Sometimes, to save as many lives as possible, the individual has to accept inconveniences such as wearing a mask.

As I said prior, free to choose, within reason.

Most people will make the more logical choice if it's properly presented to them by trustworthy sources. If you can't convince those people, it's just as much your problem as theirs. Forcing them to comply is not the right answer. It will eventually lead to the opposite of what you're trying to achieve.

It can work; here in Victoria Australia we had mandatory masks and lockdowns for nearly 3 months to combat our second wave. It was one of the strictest sets of anti-COVID measures anywhere in the world and a lot of people complained, but at the end of the day, we're now at our 49th day of zero cases statewide.

Our state premier got a lot of hate for it, but ultimately it proved effective and a few months of inconvenience bought us all freedom from COVID.