Reply To: Show us zee papers.. Passports of your not coming in ever….

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This is the kind of “debate” that, ultimately, proves fruitless because there is a world of difference between restricting activity to protect someone from their own behaviour, and restricting activity so that behaviour doesn’t affect others; some people willingly fail to see the difference – some genuinely can’t.

“Here son, you must not go to the nightclub because if you bring coronavirus back it might kill me” is different to “if you go to the nightclub and catch coronavirus you could spread it to any number of people that you may or may not even come into contact with, who may go on to take it to *their* homes and harm *other people*”.

In the first case, there are people who then continue “but that’s a risk I’m willing to take”.

Sadly, that position just looks selfish when applied to the second example.

When a virus is spread by *breathing* then the risk mitigation has to, by definition, be much more stringent than one spread by, for example, exchanging fluid.