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[–]tomatosplat 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good

[–]Lahontan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

... So we must push the fear and guilt narrative, which is all lies.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"mitigating measures that are designed to save lives"

They lie to your face. These 'measures' are clearly designed to crush small business, and drive people into poverty and despair.

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

If the rules worked as advertised (i.e. follow the rules, the disease retreats), then condemning those flouting them would have a moral high-ground. But there is zero evidence statistically that areas with stronger rules do better than those with no rules. This is true even when the rules are followed quite consistently by the population. These. Strategies. Don't. Work. Because that is the case, the only thing the strategies accomplish is the negative "side-effects". Even that term is in quotes, because it suggests there is a "primary effect". When you get the destructive effect and no beneficial one, then there is no basis for the rule in the first place.

The effort should be in looking for strategies that will work (treatments, vitamins, strategies for increasing individual immunity) rather than doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on failed strategies.