>>South Korea imposes far more intrusive and arguably totalitarian measures such as tracking each and everyone's every movement and impose compulsive tests on anyone suspected of contacting suspected cases.
South Korea's measures are far less draconian than imprisoning everyone at home.
Banning people from engaging in communal economic and social activity without complying with surveillance and safety measures, and having mandatory testing != less authoritarian than banning people from engaging in communal economic and social under all circumstances, or even leaving their homes.
Granted that under house imprisonment, you get more location privacy, with no phone tracking, but everything else is more restricted, and on par with house arrest, and the tracking privacy is irrelevant, since the authorities know you're home anyway.
>>Even then, looking at the practicality of your cherry picked examples, those approaches are only possible if you already have all the people tracking infrastructure and testing services in place.
You wrote above:
>>It seems to me that is the problem that people should focus on, instead of arguing for lifting measures aimed at protecting people.
This was in reference to not having a massive social welfare safety net that costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year, necessitates income tax rates of over 50%, and requires an extensive bureaucracy to administer, that typically decades to set up.
It seems to me overcoming the challenges of imposing South Korea or Hong Kong's hygiene rules for being outside the home, mandatory testing and phone tracking, is the problem that people should focus on, instead of arguing for creating vast forcible income redistribution schemes or keeping millions imprisoned at home in the name of protecting them.
>>So please stop abusing cherry-picked half truths to spread your disinformation
>>those approaches are only possible if you already have all the people tracking infrastructure and testing services in place.
Please stop some promoting mass-house-imprisonment, which means giving the state the power to imprison innocent people for months in the name of the public good, and your social welfare agenda, which includes imposing 50% income rates indefinitely, under the guise of fighting the virus.
People in some places, including where I am now, have been under house arrest for over two months now. And there are people like you advocating that it continue, while brushing aside alternative ways to stop viral transmission with hardly any critical analysis.
Meanwhile, you characterize my comments as 'disinformation', merely because they disagree with your house imprisonment policy.
You're disingenuously implying that it's less challenging to setup a $500 billion / year welfare bureaucracy, than an infrastructure for phone location tracking, and that phone tracking and mandatory testing are more restrictive than forcing everyone to shut everything down and stay imprisoned in their house.