DownUnderwater Dan
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This deviation from the original topic is an example of herd mentality.
In any case, I fail to understand the rationale for mandatory isolation of the extremely vulnerable. They are not significantly more likely to contract the virus, and they are not more likely to spread the disease. They differ from the general population only in their high probability of dying from it. If this is what they choose to do, out of stupidity or lack of information, why should that be anyone else's concern? Society certainly has an obligation to make Isolation easily accomplished for these people (I'm one of them) but there is no particular danger to society from letting them wander around as they choose except for the burden and expense of medical care for patients whose prognosis is close to hopeless. There is certainly no physical danger from these vulnerables. If we are going to lock people up in detention camps to limit the spread of Covid it should be people in their late teens and twenties, an idea I sometimes find appealing.
I'm not sure where this idea of locking up "vulnerable" people in detention is coming from.
An example of herd mentality is group ostracising those who may have very valid points but doesn't conform to the current sentiment of others.
An uninfected woman in Australia was sentenced to 6 months jail for crossing a state border, there was no big uproar at the severity of her sentence because of the pack mentality towards covid control. Whereas someone else swindled millions off elderly widows and not serve a day in jail, go figure
Staying on Indonesia, the "vulnerable" have become even more "vulnerable" because of the shutdown of the greater economy
There's no greater time than now for innovation and ideas especially from the young generation in their 20's to make the quality of life return to some kind of normality
I recently became acquainted with an Indonesian student in her 20's here in oz, studying to become a doctor. There's no way I would tell her some of the arrogant comments people have made about Indonesian doctors just for the sake of receiving a few likes on a scuba forum. I know if she seen it, she would be deeply offended