Are lockdowns justified?

[Irreligious Atheist]

[Angrboda]

You'll pardon me if I don't reflexively swallow the claim that these people were being denied their rights. If they were charged with breaking the law then I'm gonna take a big leap and say they didn't have such rights.

[Irreligious Atheist]

I think they are a bit overboard.

Nope it's perfect and its objectors are a bunch of selfish crybabies.

 I don't mind wearing a mask, but people getting charged here in Canada for organizing freedom rallies is outrageous.

Those psychopaths are getting off light, And they aren't freedom anything their an "I'm a selfish asshole rally"

 When BLM were rallying here in my city, the top public health official marched with them and said it was ok to go as long as you isolated for two weeks after.

Yup because that was for a worthy cause and didn't have any real impact on the spread.

 Then when it was people protesting against the politicians rather than the police, that protesting suddenly became unacceptable and organizers were and are still being charged.

Yup, those crybaby superspreader rallies were justly brought down.

Canada has or had curfews in Quebec.

Good

 

Homeless people are being ticketed for violating curfew.

Doesn't matter they will never have to pay it.

 People fined for playing Pokemon Go alone in parking lots.

Good, what the hell are they doing?

 This is beyond stupidity.

Nope, It's perfect. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.

Damn, so first you're cool with Canadian journalists getting into legal trouble for criticizing Islam, and now you are happy that the government is protecting you from people sitting alone in their cars in parking lots playing Pokemon Go? You want to defund the police and use those funds to hire other people to go check parking lots so they can fine people playing Pokemon Go?

It's called mental health, dude. Not everyone has perfect mental health like you might, or enjoys this lockdown as much as you do. Going and playing Pokemon or whatever can help with mental health.

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You'll pardon me if I don't reflexively swallow the claim that these people were being denied their rights.  If they were charged with breaking the law then I'm gonna take a big leap and say they didn't have such rights.

And how many BLM rally organizers have been charged exactly?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Damn, so first you're cool with Canadian journalists getting into legal trouble for criticizing Islam, 

I already refuted this they weren't just " criticizing Islam"

and now you are happy that the government is protecting you from people sitting alone in their cars in parking lots playing Pokemon Go? 

Nobody should be loitering in parking lots period.

You want to defund the police and use those funds to hire other people to go check parking lots so they can fine people playing Pokemon Go?

Anybody can hand out a fine and redirecting finds for cops to stuff that will actually deal with the cause rather than symptoms is good.

It's called mental health, dude. Not everyone has perfect mental health like you might, or enjoys this lockdown as much as you do.

That's an issue of society's general lack of concern for the mentally ill. That's a problem lockdown or no. But I find it fucking hilarious that people who didn't give a damn about the mental illness before are all of a sudden concerned about it now that it suits their agenda. How very convenient 

 Going and playing Pokemon or whatever can help with mental health.

And lots of things that aren't that can do that too.

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Doesn't matter what they are against and if they are as pure in their goals as BLM is to you. 

Yes, it does matter and no their goal is not pure in the slightest.

They should be allowed to assemble and protest.

Nope

 They are anti-lockdown and anti-maskers. 

This is why they shouldn't be allowed to protest.

You give up the moral high ground when you try to prevent these people from assembling to protest outdoors though.

Nope, their protest is by nature immoral.

 

You don't prove the people protesting that the government is taking away people's rights wrong by taking away their rights.

They don't have the right to endanger the public because they are butthurt.

 Duh. Corona is much harder to spread outdoors as well. And even if some people did get Corona at some of those rallies, I highly value the right to assemble and would be willing to accept that.

Nobody gives a damn what you value.

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You'll pardon me if I don't reflexively swallow the claim that these people were being denied their rights.  If they were charged with breaking the law then I'm gonna take a big leap and say they didn't have such rights.

They indeed had no such rights

[The Grand Nudger]

Freedom rallies in canadia are the same as they are here. Bunch of white supremacists yammering on about jesus, the covid conspiracy, and their rights. They saw the tiki torches and the insurrection down here and got super jealous.

[FlatAssembler]

Btw, if your method predicts an outcome 16.7% better than chance then unless your margin of error is greater than or equal to 16.7%, then it is by definition better than guessing.

Not really. A person who is guessing how a word will evolve in a language will not produce unpronounceable words. Algorithm that modifies words randomly will produce many unpronounceable words, such as, as I exemplified in my paper, "krzkd" or "ghghad".

[Rev. Rye]

[HappySkeptic]

The right to assemble and protest is usually considered to be fundamental in a democracy. It could be argued that it overrides public health declarations. However, Canada does not really provide guarantees for protest like the U.S. Constitution does.

[LadyForCamus]

[no one]

Only when in accordance with my wishes.