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>situation where most medical experts would agree that the quarantine is necessary for saving lives

The same experts (like WHO) told everyone 3 month ago that masks don't work, that no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission was found, etc. If they made such obvious mistakes and we still have to obey their orders now, what's the point of having government at all? Let's just accept the rule by the experts and get rid of elections and stuff.

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> If they made such obvious mistakes and we still have to obey their orders now, what's the point of having government at all?

That a human made an error doesn't mean the public is smarter than them.

It’s not really a question of intelligence. It’s a question of is the WHO interested in health or politics. Parroting China’s “findings” was good politics. It wasn’t good for world health.

It was not just "a human". It was an entire organization that is supposedly ran by experts.

So there is nothing malicious with the same public that funds the WHO to now start questioning them and their recommendations.

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