Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 28 Jan 2022 14:55)
For somebody with your specific values maybe.
People who value life more than faux liberty might have a different reasonable position.
What is reasonable changes depending on your assumptions.
Someone who values "life" more than what you derisively call "faux liberty" would in fact have to support China's approach to dealing with covid: making it virtually impossible to cross the border, lock down cities of millions over a single digit number of cases, pervasive surveillance, quell any dissent in the media or the internet and so on. Anything short of that, even the approaches of countries which have been successful so far( like South Korea, New Zealand or Singapore), would technically be "trading deaths for freedom".
What I'm trying to say is that this tradeoff between covid deaths and freedom is inevitable if you don't want to live in a dystopian police state in which civil liberties count for absolutely nothing. Mocking those who don't close their eyes to the existence of this tradeoff, or trying to morally discredit those who openly talk about it, is an immature and short-sighted stance on the issue. It turns into an outright farce now that we're talking about an immune escape variant for which vaccines provide only very limited and short-lived protection against infection and which is mild enough that we can let it rip without overwhelming the healthcare system.