Re: Ha
How is someone expected to take "personal responsibility" and use "common sense" against an invisible virus? The point of the precautionary principle is that it sets standards for minimising risk and helps to protect others from irresponsibility. Why is there a speed limit outside schools? Surely that should also be left to personal responsibility too if your beliefs are consistent. But how would you then react when a boyracer mowed down some kids? Aren't speed limits a sensible precaution to help protect others too? Or is it an unacceptable nannying restriction on "freedom"? This stuff is too subtle and complex to be restricted to political slogans in my opinion.
And if you want to know what will happen in a few weeks when everybody's been out partying after the end of restrictions, just look at what happened in Holland over the past month. They did the great reopening a month ago, and it's been followed by a huge locking down again as cases rose spectacularly. It's the same virus, so expect the same here. Again.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
