[isaacremuant]

Most of the populations around the world were in favor of locking people down because the governments, media and tech companies told them to. They were ok with debate being censored because "It was too important and risky".

Same thing happened in many countries with terrorism and loss of rights/super authoritarian/inconstitucional powers for govs, and it was fine... Because the risk is too great and "are you a <insert label here, such as terrorist sympathdizer, grandma killer, etc>

Let's not pretend the UK is particularly bad. Many countries are pushing the same old "destroy encryption" because I need to "tap the bad guys" and people are always fine when given the flimsiest of excuses/narrative.

Yes, HN "tech crowd" too.

[scarface_74]

The idea of isolating people who have communicative diseases and limiting crowds goes back centuries

https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/past-virus-...

[isaacremuant]

That's such a poor response to everything i said but it's par for the course.

A telling thing is that you said people who have diseases and here it was prevent movement from everyone. Prevent the movement of the non sick. Remove human rights and civil rights. Implement inconsistent security theater and censor debate, and a long etc you don't care for because you just answered in the laziest of ways.

[scarface_74]

Your statement blaming the “media”.

> Most of the populations around the world were in favor of locking people down

These were common sense measures known by people in the 500s

From the article about what happened centuries ago:

> He imposed isolation for both travelers and food coming to Constantinople from North Africa, hit by the terrible plague outbreak (541-542 A.D).

> Freedom of movement was only granted to those who obtained "a sanitary certification" from the authorities. In Venice, foreigners and passengers coming on ships needed to show a "certificate", to prove that they came from contagion-free places. In times of plague or cholera those who entered the cities were obliged to present a "health certificate" ("Patente di sanità")

But the same people were arguing right here on HN about studies showing that preschoolers in day care spread Covid even though every parent knows that preschoolers in day care have always been walking Petri dishes that spread diseases like a hooker on a crack.

Heck, since many of the people who were complaining about masks are self proclaimed “Christians”, even the Bible had “mask mandates”

https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/LEV+1....

>The person with such an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, let his hair be unkempt, [4] cover the lower part of his face and cry out, `Unclean! Unclean!' As long as he has the infection he remains unclean. He must live alone; he must live outside the camp.