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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Bull shit. The people who are concerned about a rise in despair and lack of opportunity problems are people who care about those issues and want a society that provides individuals an opportunity to do something about them, and they're concerned now because the government is imposing conditions [merits of the imposition aside] that make it harder and in some cases impossible to do anything about them.

In a free society facing viral crisis, effort must be made to persuade the populace of the necessity of the measures imposed, and the citizens should be treated as valued employees performing the national 'job' of fighting the virus. Couple those notions with the pledge to not impose more restrictions than essential, and you make the difference between a populace persuaded to exhibit the resolve to work together, and a populace forced to comply on pain of consequence. And if you're in a populace forced to comply, telling you that your despair or lack of opportunity is 'tough nuts' the sell gets even harder.

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