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[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

You put this link up just before me.

A document from 2020 discussing quarantining Covid patients. Classic middle-Ages strategy for disease: quarantine the sick.

Two problems:

1) It won't work. Respiratory viruses make a mockery of quarantine.

2) Application of the "who" and "how" of quarantine is a classic opportunity for government abuse and overreach. This is a totalitarian's dream, and we have plenty of explicitly totalitarian-talking bureaucrats who can't wait to get their hands on power like this. Incarcerating populations does nothing good, and would probably be the final nail in the coffin of societal cohesion. Chaos will follow if they start trying to implement this.

For now, this document was released a year ago. If the idea dies a quiet death, we will have dodged a bullet.

[–]democracy_blows[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well said. Yeah, Im sure there are those in Congress who jerk off to that document. Its absolutely terrifying.

I work from home, and Ill often have Alex Jones on in the background (the dude is side splittingly hilarious). He talked about the document, and I was like, "theres no f'ing way thats true" then he gave the title of the document and sure enough, there it was.

I read through the whole thing and all I could think about was the Japanese internment camps.