[AnthonBerg]

That’s bad policy, and obviously harmful.

There we are in perfect agreement.

That policy is also obviously at odds with scientific knowledge.

Policies like that harm high-risks groups immensely too.

Over here, the bad policies were strict social restrictions. Baseless and arbitrary restrictions of the number of people allowed to be at funerals and strict and severe limits to hospital visits. None of these were necessary from the perspective of the reality of aerosolized transmission and how easy it is to strip the pathogen out of the air we breathe.

It’s so absurd that it took a long time to find an analogy. It’s like repairing the flat tire on your bike with a patch of sod. It doesn’t really work, it’s messy, and people will think you’re crazy.