To add on there have always been laws, rules and regulations even on things that may not effect other people. A couple I can think of are having to wear seatbelts and helmets. Other than the the obvious cost to healthcare, and effects on first responders etc but that's not too different from effects of not wearing masks or taking vaccines. .
The only reason the anti maskers, anti lockdowners came about is cause the whole issue was politicized.
Even countries that tried to downplay covid like the UK have been going in and out of lockdowns a year after we started finding out this virus existed.
Well said.
Psychiatry is a science that has battled public ignorance and perception for centuries.
It is also a science with a long history of its own ignorance, its own prejudice and its own crimes against peoples freedoms.
These pandemic arguments about freedoms are not new to people who have mental health diagnosis nor to the people who do the diagnosing.
The majority of people with mental health conditions do not readily accept being labelled, And they rally against the mental health systems ability to detain and treat them against their will.
In other words a frame work already exists and has been there without interruption for these arguments....for centuries
You will not find this in the media or even in epidemiological arguments, because mental health gets portioned off as 'other' in peoples minds.
Some academic may well read what I am typing now and do their thesis on it...I doubt it,...but you read it here first.
If you extrapolate the arguments to stop state control for health reasons, you open the door for the man who god told to chop his babies head off, to rally against the compulsory treatment that the system enforced on him. The same controls, the same powers, that lead to the Govt being allowed to direct this man to a Govt maximum secure facility because of an illness which you cannot even prove with a blood test....
A purely theoretical illness...not even as provable as Covid.
Clearly you need to trust a scientific body over a public debate of freedoms, or we unlock the doors of Mason Clinic, and its equivalent services across this country, and release the guys that cut off their land lords heads and placed them in an oven.
Well...you could argue most should go to prison. But then many qualify for release now.....and without the mental health act, you are setting them loose among us and our children without treatment. In other words they will relapse from a un bilogically provable illness....and they will guaranteed return to the state of mind where they are killers.
I think I would rather we placed the public’s right to safety over the theoretical arguments about state sanctioned controls and loss of freedoms.
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