The coronavirus response seems somewhat suspicious.

That is your position.

You believe that people should be allowed to decide for themselves* how and where to congregate during an active pandemic. If they then decide to congregate in a crowded, loud bar without masks or vaccinations, that will absolutely lead to more infections and more deaths - and not just for those people, for other people in their community who did NOT decide to risk their health. Thus, by congregating in that bar, they are jeopardizing the health of others.

(* - and/or for the owners of such bars to make similar decisions.)

As was the freedom to congregate in bars during the height of the pandemic.

 

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You guess? Tell me something, what manner of person enters a debate and ignores the salient question when given evidence and direct accounts that show their opinion to be insane?

You think people should be allowed to fire bullets into the air for fun?

Since allowing this effectively allows anyone to fire in any number of ways, do you guess that some of them will hit people or property? At this point, you say "it isn't a good idea and people should not be allowed to do this". Are you going to?

 

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You let people into your house... imagine they catch COVID because you had it without knowing. They then let people into their house, and they pass on COVID to them, some of whom get ill, and perhaps die as a result. And because everyone is allowed to let whoever they want into their own property, the virus can spread, putting more people in hospital, straining the resources of hospitals, and thereby putting non-COVID patients at risk as well.
Given this possibility, how is you letting people into your own property not ultimately putting others at risk, and jeopardising their safety?

And similarly, the reasons your freedom to allow people into your own property is also curtailed (when that freedom is curtailed) is for the same reason of not jeopardising the safety of others.
Why do you see one as being an acceptable curtailment of freedom (so as not to jeopardise the safety of others) but not the other?

 

Being age 17????

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Pretty much everything is dangerous to a certain extent. What is more dangerous, by my estimation, is using these dangers as excuses to erode basic freedom's.
Anyway, if people are so worried about catching coronavirus, maybe they should be more careful about who they come into contact with. A lot of places have already decided to exclude the unvaccinated, and there is a vaccine which worked fairly well for the virus from what I have heard, so I am sure that they will be fine.

the reason that I see the first WW2 concealing one's lights thing as an acceptable curtailment of freedom is that it seems to me that if too many people have their lights visible, in a city, during war time, the others are doomed as a result of this no matter what they do. As in, they will get blown up by the opposition.

The reason I do not see the other situation, as in, not being allowed to let certain people onto one's own property as an acceptable curtailment of freedom is that people can simply decide not to visit other people, or interact with them. There are various precautions which people can decide to take in order to avoid catching coronavirus, like social distancing and the vaccine. I recommend these instead of imprisoning everyone.

If the hospitals are so strained by people's recklessness, then perhaps they should turn the reckless people away.

 

I am clever, despite your implication that I am not. This is getting to be a bore. I have done research on how the vaccine works, and apparently it works by delivering mRNA into cells where the mRNA is enclosed in a lipid capsule of some description, thus triggering the cell to produce the spike protein found on the surface of the virus, thus triggering an immune response to that protein and giving the organism the vaccine was administered to an immunity to the virus. What seems suspicious to me about this is that I have heard that mRNA vaccine's are completely new, and also they seem to work remarkably similarly to gene therapy. That was as far as my research took me. What have you seen people try and fail to do each time?

I'm not really.

What bs?

Okay. Good. Although, I honestly think that punishments should be less severe for mistakes, because the purpose of legal punishment is to reform, and it doesn't work so well for mistakes.

I do not assume that everyone is in NZ. That is just, like, some random little thought you had and then articulated in order to be snarky. I have not forgotten that there are other laws in NZ. As per your implication, I am well aware that some laws may contradict each other.
I can't read all of that. What is the part of the act you were hoping to use against me?

True. These restrictions are probably good things in many cases. However, I would say that the only restrictions that are really necessary are the following: No violence except in necessary self defense. No stealing. No sexual assault. No harassment. No vandalism. No imprisonment except as punishment for a harmful crime.

I'm not saying that having one's word challenged is bullying, despite your implication that I was. I support my claims with evidence whenever I have any, so there you go. Anyway, the way I propose that people bully bullies is by simply saying mean things to them which strike personal nerves.

I have been told this repeatedly. Perhaps you should stop saying the same thing over and over again in different ways.

I haven't seen much of life or the world, because I am 17. I will see more.

I did. I still guess this.

Of course locking the world up might help to stop people dying of a virus. I still reckon that it is not worth it though. Also, if things keep going the way they're going, I might not be allowed to disagree with the officials. Perhaps the world will become like oceania.

I'm sure I will be a fairly safe driver, despite your implication that I would be the contrary.
Also, I am very good at getting my way. I'm sure others are too.

That is wrong. Although, I really recommend that people avoid being infected with it.

I know what I am talking about. I have no reason to look it up. Besides, I already did look it up. It is true that anyone who employs any term outside of it's actually meaning does not make sense.

lock downs are contrary to the freedom of movement. Perhaps they are legal. But they shouldn't be. This is why I plan to get into politics.

I know enough English. I do not need to look up any words.
I was thinking that I might try learning Chinese next.

 

I am not ignoring the salient question. I have already said that the virus is probably dangerous and suggested that people take their own precautions to avoid catching it, but that we all do away with lock downs because they erode too much personal freedom, and are therefore bad. Were you implying that I was ignoring all of this?
Also, as for the sort of people who would do what you mention in your first paragraph, I'd say that probably only online troll's would.
I do think that people should be allowed to fire bullets in the air for fun. The permission to do so would not necessarily allow anyone to fire in any number of ways. Like for instance, they still wouldn't be allowed to shoot other people, because that type of violence is illegal, and they still wouldn't be allowed to shoot other people's property, because vandalism is illegal. Some might accidentally shoot other people or other people's things, unless the right kind of restrictions were put in place, like, for instance, firing guns in public places.
I might change my views on this if I am given good reason to do so. I do not know yet.

 

So more criminals than jails can hold, solution, build more jails??? Don't even think about diverting low level criminals to other programs away from jail

So more reckless people than hospitals can hold, solution, build more hospitals??? Don't even think about educating reckless people not to be reckless

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Yes you were, I bolded it.

Did the bolded question confuse you? This is like pulling teeth - I was asking you about firing bullets into the air.

That is off the scale stupid. You were given a link and accounts showing people getting injured from falling bullets at a couple of hundred mph!

That is just so very dumb. How the hell would you police this? You either stop it completely because it is very dangerous or people do the very dangerous thing!

Really? I mean really! I gave you a link explaining it, people gave accounts of experiencing it. It's not complicated - what goes up must come down. Can people chuck marbles up in the air, or drop them from the tops of buildings? Bullets come down from being fired, at very fast speeds. They are made of metal. Which part of this confuses you? One of those comes down in a a city or town, on somebody's car, big dent, or on their head, big cut or worse!

 

Perhaps one already has and landed on someone's head. The trauma was internal causing her to loose any memory of the incident and giving us the person we have now???

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I think that if you are seriously concerned, and I believe you are, I would suggest that you put on a good quality mask ( N95 or better) and spend a few hours in a large regional hospitals Casualty (ED) Department. Observe how exhausted the medical teams are and how very sick COVID patients are, as they slowly get processed and returned home (life threatened excepted) because beds are not available. Take the time to get real first hand experience of what is actually happening in our emergency wards and then realize that nearly all hospitals are inundated and barely functioning due to the over whelming nature of this pandemic.

I recently had the misfortune of needing urgent treatment via ambulance to ED for an unrelated condition and endured about 8 hours of hell before I too was sent home because the hospital was not deemed safe enough for me to be admitted. I got first hand experience of what mis-information, ignorance and fear of vaccines is costing our front line health workers and it is not good !!!

So make the effort to do the research before forming a strong opinion either way and if you are as smart as you appear to be you will find that the world is in deep shite with this bug generally speaking and the main reason for temporarily losing individual freedoms is because of the bug forcing people (Governments included) to take urgent action to slow or stop it's spread. ( including the use of emergency vaccines )
...and note that no government would voluntarily force an economy or population into lock down or declare mandates with out damn good reasons as the cost both politically and financial is extremely high.

 

How about censorship? In NZ

As of September 2011, 1319 books have been banned and an additional 728 have been restricted in some way. More than two-thirds of banned or restricted books were classified before 1987.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_in_New_Zealand

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How about quarantines for thinks like hemorrhagic fever and tuberculosis? Also too much erosion?

But then you say that someone might get hurt (and thus make this not OK) "unless the right kind of restrictions were put in place, like, for instance, firing guns in public places."
So you think it's OK to fire bullets in the air, but not in any public places?

Do you think it's OK if you fire your guns into the air just slightly over a crowded open air concert - but from your back deck?

 

Having the vaccine is no guarantee of not catching the virus. I have had my 2 shots but recently came down with it from only visiting the supermarket.

By allowing people into your home and spreading the virus to them increases the chances of others catching it. You genuinely are increasing the risk of others suffering as a result. Sure, they could stay at home and give up their freedom of not going out just so that you can have your freedom of having whoever you want in your own home. I mean, why should everyone have the same rights, right?

Sure, and people could have left the city in WW2. So no problem, right? Everyone who stays can open their curtains as much as they like at night, right? Everyone who doesn't want to risk things can simply leave, right?
By allowing the spread with those you invite to your own house, and they spread to their friends, and they to theirs, etc, you are, whether you want to accept it or not, increasing the risk to the general public when you venture outside and are in proximity to them. E.g. at the shops.
Oh, but they can lock themselves away, right? They can curtail their freedoms even more just to satisfy your selfishness?

You don't really understand doctors, do you. Noone gets turned away. Hippocratic oath 'n' all.
That said, the hospitals aren't strained only by people's recklessness, but by people's selfishness at not following the rules, and infecting those who generally do follow the rules.
Simply put, curtailing freedoms is for the greater good. If you don't understand why it is, maybe investigate the thinking behind it before complaining and disagreeing with it.
If, after you do understand, you still want to keep your metaphorical curtains open at night, that's ultimately your call, but such selfishness affects more than just you and those you invite inside.

 

Well, the oath is more about "do no harm" rather than "take everyone who comes." But in the US we do have a law - EMTALA - that states that people cannot be turned away from emergency rooms.

 

I was evacuated, as a baby, to Croydon Surrey which then countryside, to be looked after by a aunt

Now Croydon part of Greater London

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It is, but most doctors I know would say that not helping someone who is in need is to do them harm. But I concede that this may not strictly be what was intended by the oath.

 

I feel your pain.

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