Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court
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#3I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response.
The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.
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> Perhaps they should immolate themselves
For what it's worth, the only time I've ever gotten scolded by DanG was for a tongue-in-cheek reference to voluntary suicide that was a lot more subtle than this. Suggesting folks set themselves on fire is going a bit far.
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> Boomers tanked the economy
No. Reckless spending by the Federal Government tanked the economy: https://www.aier.org/wp-content/webpc-passthru.php?src=https...
Started under Bush after 9/11. Trump took it to a new level under Covid. Biden got behind the wheel and floored it.
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> Boomers tanked the economy No. Reckless spending by the Federal Government tanked the economy: https://www.aier.org/wp-content/webpc-passthru.php?src=https... Started under Bush after 9/11. Trump took it to a new level under Covid. Biden got behind the wheel and floored it.
Bush, Trump and Biden are all boomers, as were most people in congress. If you're blaming federal spending, it sounds like a reasonable statement to make that "boomers tanked the economy"?
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#7I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response. The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.
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Re: Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court
#8I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response. The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.
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because lockdowns destroyed a lot of political goodwill and have ruined a generation of children? climate change is overblown and we wont see any actual major effects for another century.
climate change believers really are just an apocalyptic cult at this point. it defies reality
there are many other, actual issues that should be addressed. housing shortages, mass illegal immigration, inflation, geriatric politicians, corruption, education, environmental protection from chemicals and other toxins, deforestation, pollution in general etc etc
climate change isn't even close to whats important. but because it has had no actual effects, and the real effects are a century away, its easy for people to posture without committing to an actual solution. there are other issues that should be addressed that people are forgetting about. its a joke
Re: Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court
#9I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response. The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.
Um, mass quarantines of healthy people is not unprecedented. It was, in fact quite common through history when outbreaks seemed to be getting out of control. First they'd quarantine families. Then neighborhoods. Then entire cities. In fact, during the pre-industrial times, entire cities would be quarantined and sometimes, if anyone tried to escape, they would be executed. While a reasonable arguments can be made about whether the various flavors of Covid quarantines were necessary or effective, to say they are unprecedented is simply wrong.
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You ought to be able to find some way to express strong disagreement without a flowery suggestion that they ought to kill themselves.