[firecall]

Which country or state is a model?

Seems to be a case of damned if you do and damned if you dont!

I live in SA, the state that got shut down for the Pizza Delivery incident.

By and large the citizens of this state support the actions of our state government!

We go hard, and go early!

For the most part we've lived through this pandemic with our lives going on as normal!

We dont have to worry, and we have very few restrictions.

Snap lock downs for a few days are a small price to pay that almost all of us are willing to pay!

We do it in solidarity for each other. Everyone wears a mask. Everyone checks in with QR codes. The few that dont are a small minority.

So when you say "they locked down a state" you mean we locked down a state. We the people of South Australia support our government's actions.

Please don't try to spin decisive actions into an oppressive narrative!

[helloworld11]

What you sound like is a deluded and emotionally post-justifying case of Stockholm syndrome. There is nothing normal or in any way ideal or worth romanticizing about the measures you describe, or their absurd over-reach for increasingly minuscule justifications that have moved goal posts to a degree that moderate rational analysis and weighing of risks reveals as somewhat demented. How sure are you that so many people in your state so whole heartedly support such a normalization of social control on the flimsy clinical pretexts you describe.

Calling actions decisive doesn't spare them from being badly decided or indeed even oppressive. Decisiveness first requires solid reasoning, not just a defense that rests on an action simply being decisive.

[spookthesunset]

Masks, snap lockdowns, closed borders and mo international travel, privacy violating monitoring… Oh yeah, that sounds really normal.

What’s your end game?