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Originally Posted by welfare
You know I find it disturbing how many people are not only willing, but clamouring to have our government assume such control over our freedom. Taking australia as some exemplary model.
It's not the return to "normal" that people are longing for. They are living in a literal prison state. And it's not even based in rationality. You can hold a beach ball under water but it will come up as soon as you let go.
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Did you even read that article about Aus? They went and ripped the bandaid off and got it over with instead of slowly dragging it out like everyone else. They were able to have 40k people attend a rugby match a month ago. That's a hell of a lot more normal than anything I expect we'll be able to do anytime soon. People still seem to be clinging to this idea that it's possible to get through this with no impact and that's been shown to not be possible. Small businesses are going to get hit regardless. Swedens economy took a hit even with how little they did.
And honestly I'm getting a bit sick of people using "freedom" as a reason to be selfish (in general, not just with COVID). Restrictions would only be impacting those incapable of doing the right thing on their own. Those who are able to be considerate of others are already restricting themselves anyways, so whether it's official or not it makes no difference to them.