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SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Electro Detective on April 19, 2020, 10:51:39 am ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 18, 2020, 11:25:53 pm ---
...Some Americans don't seem to care at all about their elders and go out to protest against the lockdowns...


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The elders are more likely to cash out before their allocated time due to Corona induced STRESS, WORRY, LONELINESS and PANIC (in no particular order or context)
especially from 24/7 news media carnivals, way before any corona sniffles, current maladies, accidents due to lowered concentration, or old age expiry takes them out

I could add if their diet, fluids and meds are monitored less, or not at all due to Will waiters family neglect, carer panic/social distancing etc
this won't do them any favors either

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Those are good points and currently a source of major concern, albeit still relatively quiet, as the Covid-19 is the enemy to fight and everything else is put on hold, heavily advertised as futile and anyone mentioning them more or less seen as committing high treason.

Many people are going to die from anything else than Covid-19 during, and after this lockdown period, for various reasons including lack of, or very reduced care, high stress, etc. Those will probably be seen as indirect (and unavoidable) casualties.

There's also currently the case of schools reopening which is highly debated. But if it lasts for too long, a significant fraction of kids may become school drop-outs.

That some people are protesting is not necessarily without any sense, and when they see how the crisis was handled worldwide on average (ie.: badly), they don't have many reasons to trust authorities either at this point. It may just be the beginning, as any lasting reduction of individual freedom (as I already talked about) is likely to trigger further protest movements.
GlennSprigg:
Australia is one of the safest places at the moment. An English friend 'stranded' in Qld is not able to travel now, but I think she is in a 'better place' at the moment, than if she was back in the UK !! with their relative thousands of current deaths!!!

Australia is big. The state of Western Australia is also big!  W/A is going through the SAME isolations as the rest of Australia now.
As such, W/A is divided now into 'regions' too, where travel across such inter-W/A boundaries has been stopped.

The 'thing' that we have not really heard about, is WHERE the virus has spread??? (Within W/A).
OBVIOUSLY, the major numbers will be in PERTH, (our Capital), but of all the numbers found/quoted, I can't recall any numbers quoted/found in the numerous REGIONAL areas???  We have many hundreds if not thousands of Kms to various regions of W/A. If say Bunbury/Bussleton/Margaret-River had NO cases, then 'isolation' would mean NO-ONE there WOULD!!!  Bring on the vaccine!   ;D
james_s:
The ban on fishing sounds ridiculous except when you dig a bit deeper it was found that a majority of people who fish travel from other parts of the state to do so, stopping at stores along the way for supplies. The issue is not the fishing, it's the traveling and it's very difficult to enforce a ban on traveling, the state does however have the power to ban fishing.

All of the requirements are there because people demonstrated that they could not be trusted to follow instructions on their own, which is the reason the US has been leading the world in infections and deaths for some time now.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 19, 2020, 03:55:47 pm ---The ban on fishing sounds ridiculous except when you dig a bit deeper it was found that a majority of people who fish travel from other parts of the state to do so, stopping at stores along the way for supplies. The issue is not the fishing, it's the traveling and it's very difficult to enforce a ban on traveling, the state does however have the power to ban fishing.
All of the requirements are there because people demonstrated that they could not be trusted to follow instructions on their own,

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Yes. Not specific to the US. Many of the restrictions were decided due to an inherent difficulty to enforce lighter restrictions.


--- Quote from: james_s on April 19, 2020, 03:55:47 pm ---which is the reason the US has been leading the world in infections and deaths for some time now.

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Well, taking the numbers per 1M people, the US is not doing that bad compared to Europe.
rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 19, 2020, 12:15:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on April 19, 2020, 11:54:07 am ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 18, 2020, 11:25:53 pm ---
...Some Americans don't seem to care at all about their elders and go out to protest against the lockdowns...


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if there is one time to shut the f*ck up and just do as being told in your life then this is the moment.

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Thanks for the offer, but I can still think critically.

Besides, my criticism is to your sentence conflating everyone protesting as "not caring for the elders".

I am not against social distancing or staying at home unless caring for essencial tasks, but choking everyone indiscriminately in all fronts is not reasonable, neither doing surreptitious reporting to authorities. Not everyone can afford working from home or have the means to ease the psychological effects of complete isolation.

Anyways, I said my piece. Peace.
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