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0 pointspdonis5y ago0 comments

*> government can compel behavior for public health crises

You do recognize the difference between "government, acting according to established procedures with proper involvement by all branches of government" and "one single person, acting on emergency authority that was never intended to last this long", right?

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djsumdog5y ago

Plagues gave way to public health, and some would argue, modern plagues formed the State as we know it today. Of course back then ministries of health burned people alive in their houses, but today, they give us clean water and safe food:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rr9b-HMSS4

pdonisOP5y ago

The ministry of health doesn't give me clean water and safe food. At best, it makes and (to some extent) checks for compliance with regulations about those things. But it doesn't produce them. At least, not in any country that actually has sufficient quantities of either.

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*> government can compel behavior for public health crises

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djsumdog5y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rr9b-HMSS4

pdonisOP5y ago

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