re: Governors: Good Job vs Bad Job dealing with virus

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It is fricking absurd to continue to suggest that effective measures to contain this epidemic are nothing but a gross abuse of civil liberties.

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This is what I've been thinking. You would have had to trample on everyone's rights back in January to have stopped this from spreading. Its hard to just blame people for China's mistakes.

Having millions of tests wouldn't have stopped it either. People carrying with out symptoms arent going to get tested and still spread it.

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It is fricking absurd to continue to suggest that effective measures to contain this epidemic are nothing but a gross abuse of civil liberties. Hell, I guess I could argue that a highway speed limit less than 100mph is an abuse of my civil liberties. If there weren’t so many dumbsses wandering our streets, there would be no need for government edicts regrading thisvirus.

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Is it okay to argue that they are both? They certainly seem to be effective where I live, especially compared to Missouri next door whose governor has pretty much left everything up to each individual county. Right now this seems necessary but there is a great potential for it to turn into a necessary evil and later on into just plain evil because of the precedent that has been set. I don't think right this moment is the time to debate this but that time is going to come up when this ends.