whatever that where it concerns Covid, you have to apply measures to society as a whole (think LT42 said âyou canât compartmentalise. Thatâs because it doesnât work if you only apply restrictions to the unvaccinated.
Erm, and yet both Austria and Germany are applying stricter restrictions on the unvaccinated, eg in Germany only the vaccinated are allowed to attend the cinema, theatre, restaurants, non-essential shops and large events.
In Germany, nightclubs are literally the only domain where the government have introduced full closures in certain circumstances, even for the vaccinated.
Also, what specifically âdoesnât workâ?
whatever Like it or not, we are all in it together, and in this particular case, the success of our society is contingent on what we do together (or donât, as the case may be)
Bullcrap, itâs negative, overly cautious, socialist-leaning social policy. Itâs trashing the economy and unfairly inhibiting the lives of the young and healthy in a futile attempt to save those who are unproductive and/or at deathâs door anyway. As with other red-tape-heavy socialist-leaning policies it does indeed drag things down to the lowest common denominator, but it is a policy choice, not a necessary one - itâs policy driven by âmisery loves companyâ thinking, rather than increasing prosperity. As demonstrated by the looser restrictions that have stayed in place in Sweden, and now remain in the UK and the US, it is possible to let life go on without succumbing to such misguided paranoia, negativity and authoritarianism.
Your attempt to make an analogy to gun control also does not work in this context as controlling guns does not also trash peoplesâ lives, livelihoods and the wider economy.
whatever Is that a reason to not make difficult objective decisions that are oriented towards ridding us of the virus? Definitely not.
Where is this "objectiveâ evidence that the closing or opening of clubs has had any meaningful impact one way or another on the progress of the virus and especially serious cases whenever such things have occurred? It seems for some a âdifficult decisionâ is clearly rather to let go of their over-controlling, fear-induced, life-stifling authoritarian tendencies. Rather than current decisions being âdifficultâ, many governments will likely be revelling in the myriad of excuses covid has given them to extend the reach of the state.
