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what you describe is USSR about 1990-1992. Such measures only make the situation worse and prolong the misery.


There is a really famous photo of protesters with a slogan "Race mixing is Communism".

This comparison is about as accurate.


ClumsyPilot, I'm not seeing how this doesn't contravene at least these guidelines:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.


Perhaps I did not express myself in the best way possible, but I was trying to summarise the following two points at once:

I do think that comparing emergency pandemic responce with Soviet Union as a whole is very poor taste and logically flawed.

I also wanted to point out that a lot of things happened in Soviet Union, including race mixing, so perhaps one should be careful when drawing conclusions.




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