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SerieZ:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 19, 2020, 10:50:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on April 19, 2020, 07:48:15 pm ---Thanks for the offer, but I can still think critically.

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That is the problem right there. People think they know it better and ignore the rules. In the end this only leads to more stricter rules and more enforcement. If the government can trust people to adhere to a few simple rules then the lockdowns don't need to be that strict. By 'being clever' you only shoot yourself in the foot. The government is not the enemy; it is ignorance.

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Government is People... and people are often Ignorant.
Authority should always be questioned, even now.

And as always the ones getting the short straw are those doing self Isolation and mostly trying to adhere to the rules. They are not really going after the really big offenders... at least here in Switzerland i.e the church goers and over protected Minorities who are treated like Children.
And that is something you only see when you go take a look out the Windows, at least where I do. I never read about it in the Media... it just sounds ugly I guess.  :phew:

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 19, 2020, 10:50:57 pm ---That is the problem right there. People think they know it better and ignore the rules. In the end this only leads to more stricter rules and more enforcement. If the government can trust people to adhere to a few simple rules then the lockdowns don't need to be that strict.
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Who says the lockdowns have to be this strict to begin with? Ok, so not a bad move back when we didn't know jack about this thing.
But let's put that behind us, now look at those lockdowns, are they the only way forward? Are they the best way forward?
Many governments are still talking months worth of lockdowns at a minimum, destroying entire economies.
Is there a better way?
Radical left field thinking here, but perhaps reallocating all the current police effort fining young and healthy people sitting on a beach or in park, to, I don't know, maybe protecting the most vulnerable?
Huge numbers of deaths have come from retirement homes and villages, have any police been allocated to protect them? Just a thought...

The thing with the lockdowns is that we'll never really know how much they contributed to the drop in cases, as there has been effectively no control group. e.g. All of Australia was pretty much locked down at once from the federal level. That makes it very convenient in terms of political liability to keep it going for as long as possible. Because at the end of all this the politicians can always say it was the lockdowns that stopped it all and it's something that we had to to have for so long to save all those lives, and there is likely going to be little to data to contest that argument. At least not on a local level.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 19, 2020, 09:10:51 pm ---To me it looks like an excellent opportunity to start a side business which could grow into a fulltime self-employed job.

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When economic disasters like this strike, and outside of world war times, this is already way beyond anything we have seen before, there are countless golden business opportunities for those who want to and are in a position to take advantage.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 18, 2020, 11:25:53 pm ---I think you may have missed the point of what some are calling "new normal". As I said above, you seem to be 2) The number of people being forced to work from home while they don't want it might be equal to the number of people wanting to work from home while they where never allowed to. Likely some people who wanted to work from home end up not liking it and people who didn't want to work from home ended up liking working from home after all. In the end you can't satisfy everyone  :) It's hard to predict what they outcome is going to be in the long run.
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I'll predict it. In a couple of years time you'd be hard pressed see any difference at all in society and work from what we had 3 short months ago.
A small percentage will switch to working from home either permanently or occasionally as some businesses see the benefit of it, but I suspect that would be lucky to crack into the double digit percentage range.
Most industries will be back to normal, schools, restaurants, gyms, airplanes, large events etc. Social distancing will become a distant 2020 memory.
And this will, with any luck, likely happen whether or not a vaccine is ultimately found, as don't underestimate nature in solving this one on it's own.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: SerieZ on April 20, 2020, 09:49:54 am ---[...]  i.e the church goers and over protected Minorities who are treated like Children. [...]

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They are protected by their God.  The rest of us have to rely on science!

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