Poll: Curfew as tactic to control covid-19

[MtnMan]

It comes down to your personal responsibility to your fellow man. Do I think it's smart / unsmart? Doesn't seem like much of an option. It's a governing bodies way of trying to curtail a pandemic with citizens who DGAF. Not all citizens, but enough to make a formidable negative impact on efforts of citizens who do GAF. I think it's just another band aid on the problem of human stupidity.

The people impacted by this order will just hangout at someone's house instead.

That is still better. Instead of being in a bar with 50 - 75 - 100 people most of which you don't know, there will be less spread if 6 - 10 people gather at somebody's home. That the goal when cities and states set a limit on the number of people that can congregate.

Plus you know these people, vs. total idiots strangers whom you have no idea how reckless their behavior has been.

 

[ch33zw1z]

That is still better. Instead of being in a bar with 50 - 75 - 100 people most of which you don't know, there will be less spread if 6 - 10 people gather at somebody's home. That the goal when cities and states set a limit on the number of people that can congregate.

Plus you know these people, vs. total idiots strangers whom you have no idea how reckless their behavior has been.

Mfer's round here congregate in barns, then have the audacity the complain about the consequences and other citizens shaming them like lepers lol, it would be comical if it wasnt so tragic for people who don't partake in the stupid

 

[MtnMan]

Mfer's round here congregate in barns, then have the audacity the complain about the consequences and other citizens shaming them like lepers lol, it would be comical if it wasnt so tragic for people who don't partake in the stupid

first, that isn't what you said, and I quote;

The people impacted by this order will just hangout at someone's house instead.

Yes, there are some that will express their freedumb by stupid behavior, but many/most won't. They will just go home and post on farcebook about how their freedom to be stupid has been denied them by a stupid curfew.

 

[96Firebird]

I can understand curfews for places like restaurants and bars, but why put a curfew on a place like a gym? My gym is in a "yellow zone" in NYS, they now have to close by 10pm. It really doesn't make much sense to me, you're limiting the time people can go, therefore increasing crowd sizes when they're open (assuming those who would rather go later try to get in before the gym closes).

 

[ch33zw1z]

first, that isn't what you said, and I quote;

Yes, there are some that will express their freedumb by stupid behavior, but many/most won't. They will just go home and post on farcebook about how their freedom to be stupid has been denied them by a stupid curfew.

Hey you got, me house, barn, whatever. The point remains.

 

[vi edit]

I'm of mind that overall closures/restrictions should be inclusive enough that curfews aren't really necessary. If those aren't working then I don't think curfews offer any better outcomes.

 

[MtnMan]

Hey you got, me house, barn, whatever. The point remains.

I never said you didn't have a point, but that your point is limited. Are you saying that your scenario is the rule and not the exception?

Of those I know that have a barn, it is not a place anyone would want to go partying, simply because it is a working, unheated barn.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I never said you didn't have a point, but that your point is limited. Are you saying that your scenario is the rule and not the exception?

Of those I know that have a barn, it is not a place anyone would want to go partying, simply because it is a working, unheated barn.

I described it as an anecdote. I live in New England, the cold isn't something people fear until January