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0 pointsperilunar4y ago0 comments

Public health is always political, firstly because it relies on taxpayer funding, but more importantly here, controlling pandemics requires restrictions on individual liberties.

We can (and should) debate the merits and necessity of lockdowns, mask wearing, etc., but to argue that the government has no right to restrict liberties is somewhat disingenuous — governments have always had the right and power to quarantine.

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chii4y ago

Just because something relies on public funding doesn't make it political.

Public health is one of those. The overwhelming goal is to reduce health problems from becoming so large that infrastructure fails to handle it, as well as prevent death and suffering as a result.

If quarantine is the way to do it, then it makes sense to enforce it. If vaccination is required, then so be it, and the taxpayers foot the bill.

It has nothing to do with political ideology, left, or right, green or brown.

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chii4y ago

Just because something relies on public funding doesn't make it political.

Public health is one of those. The overwhelming goal is to reduce health problems from becoming so large that infrastructure fails to handle it, as well as prevent death and suffering as a result.

If quarantine is the way to do it, then it makes sense to enforce it. If vaccination is required, then so be it, and the taxpayers foot the bill.

It has nothing to do with political ideology, left, or right, green or brown.

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