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curl-6 on 17 December 2020
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EricHiggin said:
curl-6 said:

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.

It's not about "forcing people to do what you want", it's about protecting people from an irresponsible few putting the lives of the wider community in peril. It's no different than having speed limits on the roads, mandatory seatbelts for cars and helmets for bikes, or having drink driving be illegal.

There was no increase in people dying by suicide and such during the lockdown either. These kind of points were all things raised by anti-lockdown folks here and all turned out to be wrong.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 17 December 2020