I notice that most people don't seem to give a crap about the virus anymore. Restaurants and stores are filled to the brim when the restrictions are removed, parks have dozens of people playing, and you rarely hear people on social media say #stayhome or #wearamask aside from political pundits. Sure, sometimes I see people walking outside with masks (lmao), but they're the minority. Despite this, what you hear from the news and the Ontario government, it still feels like it's still March 2020.
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It depends on where you live I guess. In my country the thing is still going strong, as in mandatory curfew (9 PM... Every day), obligatory mask use, and the need to fill out online forms if you want to leave your house on weekends (for a max of 2 hours, just 1 day)
It's... Beyond stupid.
Which country is this?
Chile, in South America. We have a "tier" system for the permanent lockdowns. Right now we are at tier 2, that means we can move about during the week (mon-fry), but not during the weekend (you need a permit for that). It does depend on where you live though, since different states (regiones) can have different tiers , depending on some arbitrary decision (Supposedly lower active cases... But not always, so you just pray you can actually leave your house this week). On tier 1, you need a permit to leave your house, no matter the day (3 hour permit, max 2 per week). There are special permits for work, but it's kind of a pain to get one.
There is nowhere outside the US that will be safe to "evacuate" to.
Congregating within predominantly red states and building a strong support structure there is the most realistic scenario, but as bad as the US is in places (and how horrendous the Feds are showing themselves to be) there's no better place right now.
I'll be honest man, that's probably the most draconian lockdown I've heard of, just by sheer complexity. What is it about Chile that made for such an absurd overreaction like that?
They don't have Augusto to protect them from their communists any more.
It is an overreaction to be sure... We had our own issues with BLM type protests just before the China Virus, and so the country was already on its knees beforehand (the protester even torched subway stations) We are actually gonna change our constitution now due to it... So one of the very few reasons Chile wasn't a shit hole country (like every other south American one) is about to disappear. (Basically they want to make it easier to pass laws and do overarching changes to pretty much anything... So that NOTHING gets done, and we spin in circles, like every other south American country).
So... Yeah.
You guys are too big to fail, so I doubt much of anything will happen with all the civil unrest, Chile is kind of a lost cause ATM.