Originally Posted by
The_Bouncer
I hope they will too. But when this panic blows over, like the panic over SARS, MERS, bird flu, swine flu, Zika and Ebola blew over, there will be something else that's predicted to wipe out millions.
Whether that something else is another disease, nuclear weapons or asteroids, there will be something to panic over.
Humanity really shows it's true colours when there is a panic on.
Quarantine a hotel full of people? Gotta be done.
Leave a few thousand old folks floating around the sea? Of course!
Lock down 16 million people? Yeah, why not?
What's next? What other liberties that form the fabric of democratic societies are going to be eroded in the name of fear?
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Fully agree...
To answer your last question, if some western country mandates every single person to wear a GPS tracker to track quarantine measures, you can bet there would be people who support it saying "public health trumps individual rights"
I would have understood if it was something like leprosy or rabies which would cause fatalities in a horrid way, but its just pneumonia which affects elderly people quite strongly