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2020-03-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Are You Ready To Have Your Civil Liberties Severely Restricted? Because That Is Where This Thing Is Headed…
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 First time as tragedy.
Second (this) time as farce.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-20 00:38||   2020-03-20 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Lex becoming the new Herb?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-20 02:52||   2020-03-20 02:52|| Front Page Top

#3 A Brief History of Quarantine
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-20 03:12||   2020-03-20 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 @#2: Becoming?
Posted by Albemarle Bourbon4037 2020-03-20 05:04||   2020-03-20 05:04|| Front Page Top

#5 “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves”.

- William Pitt, 1783
Posted by Menhadden Shomotle5673 2020-03-20 09:30||   2020-03-20 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Put me down in the "we're WAY over-reacting" camp. Its one thing to discourage large sporting events and concerts and that sort of thing, but to close restaurants and bars is basically a totalitarian's dream scenario and a nightmare to those who love liberty. We no longer have the right to peacefully assemble and associate?
Posted by Crusader 2020-03-20 10:10||   2020-03-20 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Lex has been a prolific and interesting commentator; G(r)omgoru a long-time, prolific contributor. Leave us not turn on one another because of a difference of opinion about the present condition.
Posted by Bobby 2020-03-20 10:22||   2020-03-20 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Amen. I've said my piece on this and will let events take their course.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-20 10:54||   2020-03-20 10:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I have also noticed the whittling away at our rights and freedoms. One view of this is John Perry's Bill of Rights Lite.
Posted by magpie 2020-03-20 11:36||   2020-03-20 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 ^I posted A brief history of quarantine for a reason. The reason being that it shows that (US) constitutional rights DO NOT apply during plague. Which, if you think about it, makes sense.
Briefly. Your Constitution (see I even used upper case - because respect) speaks of "Inalienable rights given by G*d". Inalienable by whom? Inalienable by the government, because government is not G*d. But not inalienable by G*d who gave them in the first place. And plague is an act of G*d.
I'm only half-joking
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-20 11:56||   2020-03-20 11:56|| Front Page Top

#11 According to the Quarantine article, Italian city-states Genoa and Venice had some success blocking the Black Death in the middle ages by quarantining all ships in the harbor for 40 days. Later discovered the incubation period for B.D. is 37 days.

Probably seemed a little over-the-top for the shippers, 40 days sitting on your boat in the harbor, but medicine is somewhat more advanced now.
Posted by Bobby 2020-03-20 12:10||   2020-03-20 12:10|| Front Page Top

#12 And plague is an act of G*d.

G*d or Xi Jinping. I think that's a subject for debate.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-20 13:29||   2020-03-20 13:29|| Front Page Top

#13 ^No sparrow falls?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-20 13:42||   2020-03-20 13:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah, so if Xi did, it G*d will get him for it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-20 15:15||   2020-03-20 15:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Huh.
Borders,
End to uncontrolled immigration,
Healthcare for all,
Tax review,
Transport industry crash,
Hospitality industry crash,
Prima donna boutiques of food and service shutdown,
public gatherings, parties, mobs, gangs restricted,
expanded work-from-home policies,
smog, pollution, ungreening reduced...

What's the downside?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-20 18:03||   2020-03-20 18:03|| Front Page Top

#16 1942:



2020:


Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-20 20:03||   2020-03-20 20:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Yeah?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-20 23:42||   2020-03-20 23:42|| Front Page Top

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