Yes Moose, that article sums it up pretty well.
I don't really care if people do stupid things and it only damages them, but
I'm totally P*SS*D off with people ignoring restrictions and infecting (and
sometimes killing) others in the community.
...Wayne (~35km from Melbourne CBD and currently in stage 4 lockdown)
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> From: olympus <olympus-
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> Behalf Of Moose
> Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2020 5:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [OM] Low Tide
>
> On 8/5/2020 10:00 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> > Alaska had been fortunate to avoid the bulk of the caseload, but the
> > numbers exploded recently, so we reinstated a few things, such as
> > closing the bars and limiting gatherings to something like 15 people.
> > It just forces us to adapt. In the case of the bars, this is something
> > that has really pi&&ed everybody off. There was one person who was
> > sick that went around to over 20 bars and restaurants over the next
> > couple of days. What a disaster.
>
> That's exactly why the virus has been exploding all over the place,
> unconscious superspreaders. But how can one contain them, when we (and
> they) don't know who they are, so we have to constrain everyone. And then,
> many of them won't obey orders. See below about the "800".
>
> NYT:
> ------------------------------------------
> "In Melbourne, a city of five million . . ., the pandemic has come raging back
> even after a so-called Stage 3 lockdown began in early July until recently
> the
> highest level of restrictions.
>
> Officials have been flummoxed at every turn by the persistent complacency
> of just enough people to let the virus thrive and multiply. . . .
>
> And 53 percent had not quarantined while waiting for their test results. That
> means people have felt unwell and just gone about their business,
>
> A door-knocking campaign to check in on 3,000 people who had Covid-19
> found that 800 of them were not at home.
>
> Our politicians are as scared as we are, but they have to pretend like they
> have a better idea than we do of what s going to happen next.
> --------------------------------------------
> As long as people act foolishly and unthinkingly, which is forever, enforced
> controls are necessary.
>
> I spent much of my younger life thinking I was surrounded by idiots.
> Experience, compassion, whatever, changed that.
> Now, I'm having that feeling again. I really have a hard time understanding
> how so many people let politicians make health decisions for them. "Hey, the
> governor says it's OK to go to bars, CMon!"
>
> Bad News Moose
>
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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