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Originally Posted by Jay Random
So going with vaccine passports, and placing all who either refuse to get them, or to whom the government fails to issue them, under indefinite house arrest – this is merely a routine bureaucratic decision? Not policy? Neither politicians nor the public should be involved?
You're a born totalitarian, which is why I fully expected you not to understand anything I had to say. Your wish to crawl at the feet of all-powerful bureaucrats is no surprise to me.
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Whoa.. nobody is putting anyone under 'house arrest'. Don't want to get vaxxed? Fine, you don't have to, but you are putting other people at risk, period. Nobody is forcing the unvaxxed to stay home and be monitored - that's house arrest. You have the freedom to go out any time you want at any time you want, but you can not go into public places full of people, you know, because you can potentially continue the spread of the virus that is causing the pandemic. Point is, it is a huge stretch to argue that you are now under house arrest just because you can't go to restaurants, movie theatres and other NON ESSENTIAL public areas.
As for totalitarianism - I get it. I grew up brain-washed through my social studies classes through my schooling in which they basically indoctrinated you into thinking that the only way was the conservative way. BS on that. If you think this is some grand scheme to institute some sort of totalitarian regime, then there is no point in talking. I was also indoctrinated into thinking that 'socialism' = USSR = evil. None of those 3 necessarily equate to one another.
There is a thing called social democracy where people get to vote, but government actually does do the right thing for the PEOPLE first, then business. That's what mostly happens in western Europe these days - not 'socialism' like we think of that equates to the former USSR and so forth.
Want proof? Show me where the USA - a 'democratic' capitalist country ranks on various things like happiness, quality of life, safety, security, education, freedom (ha!), and other metrics. They are way down the list.
Man, I really can't stand people clamouring that we are losing our freedoms because we are trying to put an end to a pandemic. Life is not normal right now, but the longer people keep insisting that their God given rights to do as they please and #### any sense of social responsibility is making this last way longer than it needs to.