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by komali2 1215 days ago
It sounds like you're arguing for the right to knowingly infect others with contagious disease.

Sometimes things happen that cause society to need to be rearranged. In the case of COVID it really didn't require that much rearrangement - prefer outdoor activities, wear masks, stick HEPA filters in enclosed spaces, keep windows open. Contact tracing apps, maybe. We had those in Taiwan in a way that protected privacy.

Predictably, people with reactionary tendencies, well, reacted, to which I say good luck in your next hurricane I guess? "Bah to this flooded city, I'm not about to let a half meter of water change how I live my life!"

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It sounds like you’re trying to make it seem like I said something I didn’t.
Why should society give preference to people unwilling to acknowledge the reality of a pandemic? Seems the obvious solution is to allow access to the commons to those willing to take steps to protect eachother, and block access to malcontents. I'm really confused why this was suddenly controversial during COVID - we had ridiculous rules about commons access before such as you must wear a certain kind of clothing, but mask or vaccine requirements is somehow different? I don't get it but, whatever.