[tengbretson]

> You’re on a slippery slope and don’t consider that this is an exceptional situation.

The basis for those civil liberties is a document written by people accustomed to seeing 400k Europeans die of smallpox every year.

[glitcher]

Despite all their best efforts at studying the effective transmission rate, wearing PPE, and developing treatment drugs and vaccines!

Yeah, seems like an equivalent comparison to me.

[yellowapple]

If anything that only proves the GP's point. During the mentioned time period the only solution was to infringe on civil liberties by imposing a strict quarantine, and yet the people of the day still decided that it was better to die free than to live oppressed.