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Covidiots

mardi 3 novembre 2020 à 01:00

Covidiots in many European countries are protesting against measures to put an end to Covid-19, in two fundamentally different ways.

This article describes demands for aid and demands to spread disease. It does distinguish the two goals, but still treats them as part of one larger issue. That is a mistake. Those two reactions to the same situation are totally different in moral terms.

When people have lost their income and demand aid, their cause is just, and the government should provide it. However, to do this the government may need to pull out of the Euro, or it fall into the sort of disaster that crushed Greece for most of the past decade.

However, the people that demand to disregard precautions are demanding to infect other people, some of whom will be killed or permanently disabled. They are disease spreaders, and they belong in prison. It would be most appropriate to put them, together, in a prison which the guards do not enter. That way they can spread coronavirus to each other without endangering anyone else.