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> Coronavirus restrictions deliberately took and removed almost everything it means to be human from people.

Can you clarify which restriction regime you're referring to?

I've got relatives in Australia, and I live in New York state; both are on the heavier restrictions side, and the idea of describing our lives as having "removed almost everything it means to be human" is baffling to me.

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We had a consecutive six months of it being literally illegal to visit family in the UK.

My job was banned by the Government and hasn't recovered.

I have _still_ not been able to practice many of my hobbies because the legal framework has made it impossible to plan forward more than a week or so.

Is it a gulag? No. Is it worth it? Worth what? Coronavirus is a 1% IFR disease, lower with vaccines. Boring.

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