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I’m mostly talking about the partial lockdowns where only specific categories of businesses or employees were considered essential. Many of these designations
by lockhouse 3y ago
I’m mostly talking about the partial lockdowns where only specific categories of businesses or employees were considered essential. Many of these designations were arbitrary at best and politically motivated at worst.
- Arainach 3y agoPlease cite your sources here. Lockdowns were effective. 1) Lacking a nationalized infrastructure to deliver food, utilities, and healthcare, some businesses are clearly essential 2) It is impossible to have unanimous consensus on what "essential" means 3) In some areas, businesses are not tightly scoped - the primary source of food for a neighborhood may also sell non-food items. 4) Even the definition of "essential" cannot be tightly defined - are manufacturers of spare infrastructure components essential? What about their suppliers? What about the contractor who refills their coffee machine? Decisions had to be made, and administrators largely made the best decisions with the information available to them.
- tdhz77 3y agoProgrammer logic leads some to the libertarian path. Not everything is a zero sum game. Life is messy and it’s not always governments fault. Getting it right more than wrong saved countless lives. You can’t quantify the amount of lives saved.