tailfins
12-09-2020, 10:29 AM
My wife has lost several family members in Brazil to COVID this year. For SOME people, it is indeed dangerous. It's also true that politicians around the world are using COVID as a power grab. I find my in-laws thinking about COVID to be instructive. All this social distancing, covering one's mouth in an act of obedience, obediently resigning oneself to a sackcloth and ashes life of poverty is just a bit too convenient for governments that want power over their people. So, what's the best course of action? That's simple! Being in generally good health is the common factor for people who survive COVID. That means exercise, lose weight, eat healthier, get a check-up, etc. What if it turns out that COVID is a hoax? Imagine how frustrating it would be to get healthy for a lie. Being in good health is certainly a reason to be angry (NOT). That's how many in Brazil consider COVID, especially right wingers. Many elderly consider cutting a few years off their lives a worthy sacrifice to avoid having their children and grandchildren begging for food at a traffic light. Such is the exact result if you do a lockdown in some parts of the world.
Mexico tried to lock down, but the result was that people with nothing to lose set up blankets selling things on the sidewalk in front of the closed stores. Enough people violated the lockdown where it would be impossible to arrest them all. And even if the authorities could arrest them all, the authorities would be forced to feed all those people. If the authorities didn't adequately feed all those people, their family members would produce massive street riots. Seeing the sidewalks full of people selling stuff on the sidewalk and getting away with it, the stores decided to open illegally and got away with it. The lockdown failed.
Mexico tried to lock down, but the result was that people with nothing to lose set up blankets selling things on the sidewalk in front of the closed stores. Enough people violated the lockdown where it would be impossible to arrest them all. And even if the authorities could arrest them all, the authorities would be forced to feed all those people. If the authorities didn't adequately feed all those people, their family members would produce massive street riots. Seeing the sidewalks full of people selling stuff on the sidewalk and getting away with it, the stores decided to open illegally and got away with it. The lockdown failed.