The acting chief health officer took only 15 minutes to make the decision to forcibly confine 3,000 residents in the public housing tower in July. Many were left without food and medicine during the duration, and they didn’t even know how long they’d be imprisoned, which surely added an unimaginable degree of horror to their ordeal.
This story is several weeks old, but a very good example of the level of suffering that normally “good” governments are willing to inflict in order to “save lives”. There have been countless examples of public officials violating rights in the most vulgar of ways if they somehow believed they were “saving lives”. The question should be: how many are you willing to kill, in your quest to “save lives”?
