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nctnico:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 15, 2020, 03:05:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 15, 2020, 02:04:32 am ---People will want to get back to this routine as soon as possible, and the longer they aren't allowed to do that the more pissed of people are going to be. They don't want a "new normal" and will not accept it in the long term, you'll see.

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Of course. And as I said already, how could they not? If this "new normal" that some are talking about is just switching to a society where you're being constantly told what to do and when you can do it, it looks a lot like home detention. Already said that, but that's currently what we are subjected to. Home detention. Even people under real home detention have more freedom than we currently do. Who would want to live like this forever? Seriously? It's mind-boggling to me that some people seem to see it as OK or even desirable. Please help me understand.

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Well, you are in France where they want everyone to stay at home. Such a situation cannot continue. But there are alternatives which are just as effective and don't require people to stay inside. Over here everything is OK for as long as you keep a distance and don't gather in groups (3 is a crowd). This effectively means over here we can still do most of the things we always did.

Bud:
It is hardly can be considered OK with the country trailing China on the number of deaths and 183 deaths per million as of today.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 15, 2020, 03:34:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 15, 2020, 03:05:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 15, 2020, 02:04:32 am ---People will want to get back to this routine as soon as possible, and the longer they aren't allowed to do that the more pissed of people are going to be. They don't want a "new normal" and will not accept it in the long term, you'll see.

--- End quote ---
Of course. And as I said already, how could they not? If this "new normal" that some are talking about is just switching to a society where you're being constantly told what to do and when you can do it, it looks a lot like home detention. Already said that, but that's currently what we are subjected to. Home detention. Even people under real home detention have more freedom than we currently do. Who would want to live like this forever? Seriously? It's mind-boggling to me that some people seem to see it as OK or even desirable. Please help me understand.

--- End quote ---
Well, you are in France where they want everyone to stay at home. Such a situation cannot continue. But there are alternatives which are just as effective and don't require people to stay inside. Over here everything is OK for as long as you keep a distance and don't gather in groups (3 is a crowd). This effectively means over here we can still do most of the things we always did.

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Confinement is not just in France, FYI. Similar situation in many countries currently. But sure this can't be lasting and will have to end (although it may very well be decided again in the future, much more frequently than it ever did.)

But that's not just what I'm talking about. I was talking about everything people put behind the term "new normal", and everything that we can suppose might be.

"everything is OK for as long as you keep a distance and don't gather in groups (3 is a crowd)."
Do you call that normal? Seriously? Do you want to live in a world in which you can't be more than 3? In which you can't get close to anyone, meaning everyone is now a potential threat to anyone else? In which you may have to ask anyone to show you a certificate before getting closer than 1 or 2 m? Seriously?

I'm sure some of you have not thought this through really well, or are just reasoning as though ALL of this was temporary (which we can all hope for really), but here we were talking about what could be *permanent* after that.

paulca:
In the UK we got sensible "guidance" first.  But a lot of people ignored it completely.  So they threatened enforcing it, people ignored them, so they enforced it.  They were so vague we had a week of the press asking, "okay, what can I do and what can't i do?", so they just made it "easy to police"...  house arrest basically. 

No driving around either which confused me.  If I'm alone or with members of my household, what difference does it make?  I'm at more risk being stopping by the police than just going on my way.

But this is to allow the police the power to stop people congregating enmass at tourist spots and beaches in teh good whether.  They claim it's to limit the dangers of breakdowns and accidents.  Bullshit I say to that.

SiliconWizard:
FYI: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/14/business/14reuters-health-coronavirus-amazon-france.html

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