Are Democrats going to push masks and vaccines again?

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(09-05-2023, 11:16 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: That plain fact does more to destroy the narrative around Covid than anything.  It's deadly and we need to social distance, right?  You can't even go to the beach and surf without another person within a hundred yards of you, right?  But you can pack thousands, elbow to elbow, yelling and screaming for hours?  If it was the public health emergency it was proclaimed to be then the protests would not, and should not, have been allowed.  So take your pick.  Either the virus was a huge public health hazard and we let people infect each other by the thousands anyways or it wasn't and we enforced severe restrictions on the lives of the citizenry for no good reason.  One or the other has to be true, and both are terrible options.  "We" being the government of course, and its mouthpieces.

That is a fair point, and I for one fall on the side that the protests should not have been allowed. At the same time, I have to acknowledge that this would have been a terrible and possibly near impossible decision to make, as in throwing a torch into a powder keg. I wouldn't know how I could have handled that situation in accordance with my beliefs on the sense of social distancing rules.

Also, I don't know the exact US narrative, but here the masking and social distancing rules weren't so much meant to extinguish the virus, but to slow down the spread to not overwhelm hospitals. Which nearly happened anyway. For that reason alone, I believed some restrictions made a lot of sense - up to a point. When the more harmless variant became prevalent, the lockdowns got harder to justify.

Not to mention some measures always were exaggerated. On the one side, I understood why caution with a yet unknown virus seems like the sensible route to go. But closing down schools or disallowing access to hospital patients no matter if there's a negative covid test, things of that nature, always were questionable. I remember your story about that and heard some similar ones, and those were some terrible und unnecessary restrictions. I will, however, still defend the earlier lockdown decisions in principle. Pretty much the whole world agreed on them.