Ask HN: Is censoring dissenting opinions about the lockdown a bad idea?
No doubt the people doing this believe they are doing a good thing. They no doubt believe they are protecting ourselves and others from our own stupidity.
People who want this lockdown no doubt think they understand something the rest of us do not. Except they don't.
The death toll of this virus needs ONLY be measured in percentages. Headlines about the thousands who have died only fuel panic. Example: 1000 people died in our County because of Coronavirus! Except our county has a million people. Coronavirus deaths are on the same order of magnitude as the flu, heart disease, obesity, suicide, etc. when taken in perspective even without the lockdown.
By censoring dissenting opinions we are adding fuel to the fire. We are getting people to ask for more control and more laws in the name of protection from a disease that we have drastically over reacted to.
Those who love rules and love being controlled are coming out of the woodwork. Dissenting opinions are not allowed (for your safety because you're too stupid to have a valid point of view). This country is heading straight towards third world status complete with mandatory face masks in public.
We've already passed the point where this was about the virus. From here on out this is about control. You have no access to information that the powers that be don't want you to have. Your opinion, your understanding, is incomplete and substituted with that of celebrities.
Please wake up and see that censorship like this is extremely destructive to the free society that we aspire to be. We need to tale a stand against censorship while we can still even remember what the before times were like.
I know many of you may not agree with my views on the cost/benefit of our reaction to this virus but I think we can all agree that we have to start standing up to censorship.
First they came for the Communists...