They probably meant January 6th rebels being pardoned giving the example that extremists that aim at preventing democratic election results from going into effect can do as they want.
Which is a much bigger problem than "stay home a bit to avoid unintentionally killing people".
So people should die of pandemix diseases for making sure that personal freedoms are never ever temporarily restricted, got it.
One side seems busy with taking democratic institutions down, I wouldn't be surprised if freedom is next anyway. (well freedom of opinion is already disappearing)
> So people should die of pandemix diseases for making sure that personal freedoms are never ever temporarily restricted, got it.
This is the authoritarian mantra. Accusing others of "harming" so you get to impose your bullshit unquestioned. It's always the same strategy. It's always "temporal" and yet the precedent stays.
> One side seems busy with taking democratic institutions down, I wouldn't be surprised if freedom is next anyway. (well freedom of opinion is already disappearing)
"One side"? Lol. You're gonna give me that old charade of evil trump and repubs and how it's good when your side does it to stop them? Or is it viceversa. In any case, it's still bullshit and you're the problem.
Yes. Car crashes harm people too. You don't ban cars as a consequence, or ban discussion about cars, or call car proponents "anti science" or "children assassins" because children die in car crashes.
You and every authoritarian out there thinks that just by mentioning a threat, then you get to force your "solution".
You didn't contain the pandemic, btw. Actions constituted hygiene theater just like the war on terror engages in security theater. You can do more damage with the measures to protect against something but if you don't allow discussion and frame everything as a win of course you'll claim everyone else is just crazy.
Bottom line, you're an authoritarian using the same old argument to justify it.
America has been trashed not by Covid but by the precedence being set that partisan violence can and will be pardoned.