[lug] CANCELLED: Boulder Linux User's Group - March Meeting - Boulder Linux Users Group - Mar 12, 2020

[Davide Del Vento]

Well, I spoke with my parents on Saturday and they told me that you need
such a permit. Maybe they bragged or things have changed since you came
back.

To answer your question, my great-grandparents died for freedom, and I
would not accept any restrictions whatsoever.

Do you know how many people each year DIE because of regular pneumonia
without people even blink? Look it up. The number of DEATHS by regular
pneumonia EACH year in the US is higher than the total number of people
infected (just infected, not dead) by COVID-19 worldwide. Why aren't we
locking ourselves all the time to prevent regular pneumonia, then? If one
wants to live under a glass bell, I have no objections. My objection is
about being forced to do that myself because of the fear the media
instilled into people.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:17 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet-bldrlug at lwn.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:05:40 -0600
> Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would not have attended anyway, but I agree with Valentina.
> > The cure has become worse than the disease.
> > I hope Colorado does not turn like Italy (unfortunately so far it's
> > following that path quite closely). In case you missed it, in Italy now
> you
> > need a police permit to get out of your house. Given the choice, I'd
> rather
> > die for COVID-19 than withstand such a mandatory restriction
>
> And how many people are you willing to infect to avoid such restrictions?
>
> FWIW in Italy (where I was until a couple of weeks ago - yes, I've kept
> myself locked up since) you don't need a "police permit", you need a self
> certification that you're going out for a necessary reason, which can
> include work, getting food, etc.  It sucks, but having your health-care
> system collapse also sucks, and they have managed to (barely) avoid that
> so far.
>
> jon
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