Resist The Authoritarian Response To The Coronavirus

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So we went from complaining about Republicans calling this a hoax to Democrats, once a response is being made, to effectively calling the response a hoax.

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https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1241542854582951936

Ironic that the administration that wants this is the same one saying this will be over and the economy can turn back in in a few weeks

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It's hard to believe the U.S. is doing worse on civil liberties than Singapore is.

Who would have ever - EVER - thought the U.S. would do worse than SINGAPORE?

Let this sink in for a moment.

I fully expected we'd be where we are under Trump and figured it would happen sooner or later under the Republicans.

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There's no evidence that Social Distancing and Mask Wearing have significantly minimized the death toll, or even the number of cases.  

There's no evidence because they were not actually enforced. No rule is going to work if you have half the population not following them--clearly someone in the 'law and order' segment of the population should know this. It's like having a road where everybody speeds, and then claiming going the speed limit is pointless as it doesn't prevent accidents.

While I don't believe masks should be mandated for the vaccinated at this point, the fact that people who are not vaccinated are not wearing them does not somehow refute decades and decades of proven evidence that masks do work at preventing individuals who wear them from spreading diseases.

This business of requiring daycare centers to put masks on 2-year-olds must end.

It seems they prefer this to inconveniencing antivaxxers by requiring vaccines for staff.

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Hate to say it, but all those people who said back in March 2020 that the rules were only temporary are looking like absolute fools right about now.

Do you mean the mask mandates that are not in any way enforced and most people ignore without consequences? Or the nonexistent lockdowns? Or the largely nonexistent and mostly unenforced vaccine passports? Or were you referring to the nonexistent bans on public gatherings? Do explain the March 2020 restrictions that are still ongoing.

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Hate to say it, but all those people who said back in March 2020 that the rules were only temporary are looking like absolute fools right about now.

Do you mean the mask mandates that are not in any way enforced and most people ignore without consequences? Or the nonexistent lockdowns? Or the largely nonexistent and mostly unenforced vaccine passports? Or were you referring to the nonexistent bans on public gatherings? Do explain the March 2020 restrictions that are still ongoing.

Obviously you live in a red state.  You have no clue, again, what you’re talking about or what its like in big blue cities.  You absolutely cannot enter an establishment without a mask and have to show vaccine passports.  You really need to educate yourself before you make these condescending responses.

I was replying to someone who also lives in a red state so whatever clever point you think you made is irrelevant. I will agree that most of the remaining restrictions outside of vaccine mandates are going overboard and have been critical of them in other threads.