Originally Posted by
vne165
To reprise, and to quote J Albrechtsen in the Oz today, "What if 768 people died due to the actions of a business? We are allowing politicians to run a protection racket, exempting themselves from basic accountability standards they impose on businesses."
It's not a blue team/red team issue, it's what we've slept-walked into. There must be rational and proportionate levels of accountability.
That’s a completely irrational conclusion and it is one of the reasons why that is not my preferred news source.
Why?
Because 768 people didn’t die due to the actions of politicians.
768 people died because they caught a virus during a pandemic.
The politicians are in charge of managing public health policies to minimise the impact of a pandemic.
The government has done a lot to interfere with society to minimise pandemic deaths. That is completely different from the government implementing policies that cause deaths.
We can always look back on how well they did, and say that if they did better, the death count would have been lower.
We can also look back and say that if they didn’t do xxx then the death count would have been much higher, as it has turned out in most other countries.
It’s absurd to suggest that our government exists to keep us safe from disease.
What do you think is the role of government with respect to a sudden pandemic?