Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[EricHiggin]

curl-6 said:

EricHiggin said:

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.

Does forcing people to do what you want always work out for the best? Has it worked as well everywhere else? Have countries or the media seemingly lied or spun the numbers at times? Didn't NZ announce they defeated covid, getting huge praise for it, only to later have another unforeseen outbreak? How many people suffered or died indirectly because of the lockdown?

'We won the war by nuking them into extinction', wouldn't be seen as acceptable in the most vile hate filled war to rival the ages, because of everything else you would need to take into account.