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Lockdowns
« on: December 21, 2020, 07:52:24 PM »
What is with the "locking down" of healthy people?

Where is the science that lock downs stop the spread of anything?

It is an understood phenomena that flu season ramps up when we all huddle inside, locked down.

Through the trial and error of centuries humans figured out that isolating the sick and infected from those most vulnerable is the safest course of action.

Everyone else goes along doing their thing, living life.

Locking up the healthy would seem absurd.

The western world is acting as if we are under a biological attack by an enemy or something!

What is with the overreaction and totally different course of action that defies the history of pandemics?

This is posted here because I personally believe this is a political issue, not medical or science.
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Re: Lockdowns
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2020, 07:57:43 PM »
Nobody seems to be asking "What lets governors make laws without the legislature?" either. Just some vague hand waving about "emergency powers."

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Re: Lockdowns
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2020, 02:31:31 PM »
Semi-naked power grab.
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Re: Lockdowns
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2020, 03:03:58 PM »
Quote from: HankB on December 21, 2020, 07:57:43 PM
Nobody seems to be asking "What lets governors make laws without the legislature?" either. Just some vague hand waving about "emergency powers."


A few have been struck down by the states' supreme courts for exactly that reason.
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Re: Lockdowns
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2020, 04:13:03 PM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on December 23, 2020, 02:31:31 PM
Semi-naked power grab.

... with "emergency" as the fig leaf.

"When you allow the government to break the law in an emergency, it will create emergencies in order to break the law."
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Re: Lockdowns
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2020, 09:56:16 PM »
It's not about health, it's about control.

I'm just shocked at the totalitarianism that was lurking subversively and has now surfaced. It's so brazen and no one seems to be in fighting mode yet. We need a modern-day Revere shouting about the commies coming, but they are already here, there, everywhere =|
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Re: Lockdowns
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2020, 11:05:02 PM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on December 23, 2020, 04:13:03 PM
... with "emergency" as the fig leaf.

"When you allow the government to break the law in an emergency, it will create emergencies in order to break the law."
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Exactly.  I was going to just write naked power grab, but then decided it wasn't quite accurate.
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