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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Are you thinking straight?
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The bulk of offenders are in the 19-25 age group. So they do more spreading than others.
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What I'm mooting is called disincentive to misbehave. Prolly won't work but some disincentive is needed.
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Punishing different age groups differently is basically giving a free pass for other age groups to act less responsibly. If you feel people aren't being discouraged enough, that's fine and I agree because far too many people aren't taking things seriously, but punish everyone that's flouting the law equally.
This isn't an age issue, it's an issue that affects everyone and everyone needs to be on board with it.
There's another side to the statistics as well - correlation is not causation. More young people are being infected, that is true and I have no doubt that a proportion of that, even a significant proportion, is people going out drinking and partying - but that doesn't necessarily mean they're breaking the law, refusing to wear masks or not respecting social distancing. You can do everything "right" and still get infected. A large proportion of frontline workers
are young people, that also skews the statistics greatly as well. You don't often find retired people working the checkouts.
We eased restrictions, opened pubs and encouraged people to go out, eat out to help out, etc. and suddenly we've had a rise in cases. If you want to look for someone to blame, blame the government. If you want to look for a group to blame, blame the group that refuses to wear a mask, or spreads stupid conspiracy theories - and those groups span all ages, all demographics.