<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 10:03 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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<br>“Something fundamental is going wrong. In all regions of the world,<br>
the authorities are apparently increasingly viewing their own people<br>
as an enemy,” he stated.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Somewhat delayed response here...</div><div><br></div><div>We now know that covid isn't like ebola, where exposing someone to it is basically manslaughter. So violence in enforcing mandates is excessive and unnecessary. As is violence in opposing mandates.</div><div><br></div><div>So when the next pandemic comes along, how do we decide which countermeasures make sense and which are government overreach? Especially when little is known about the pathogen?</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>