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And young adults are among the least affected. There are no justifications for this kind of medical surveillance.



There are perfectly good justifications: More Americans died than combat deaths in WWII at this point. Young Americans can be permanently disabled, and can share diseases with old professors.

There are also perfectly good justifications for not wanting a police state.

Until both sides understand that the other side has a point, we're not going to land anywhere reasonable.

If we had 100% compliance with the easy things:

* Social distancing of 6 feet

* Universal usage of 80% or more effective masks

* Vaccines

* Everything that can be done outdoors is

We probably wouldn't need the hard things.

Reasonable measures by everyone are far more effective than part of the population throwing all precautions to the wind, and part insisting on a draconian police state.

I'm concerned about economic shutdowns, closing schools, failing businesses, police state measures, and similar. Avoiding those means we all need to acknowledge the very real risk of COVID19, and while we might not agree with medical surveillance, that the people pushing for it have different values but aren't crazy.




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