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17312141 No.17312141[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

What would Orwell have thought about people not being allowed to go outside or see their family in order to "save lives"?

>> No.17312150

>>17312141
>please just confirm my opinions for me on 4chan!

fuck off

>> No.17312151

>>17312141
He probably would have been essentially on board, while also complaining about the trite way the government and public health organizations have encouraged people to go about it.

>> No.17312154

>How Orwellian!

>> No.17312158

>>17312141
Kys

>> No.17312171

>>17312150
u mad bitch?

>> No.17312172

>>17312141
P.S.- Where do you live that going outside is illegal?

>> No.17312187

>>17312172
In the early days of COVID, there actually were some Executive Orders which forbade people from going out for anything other than "essential" tasks. The one in Illinois forbade people from visiting friends in other cities.

>> No.17312238

>>17312187
Yes. That's different from it being illegal to go outside.

Orwell took pride in being resilient. He subjected himself to discomfort when it was necessary, but I think he also wanted to confirm to himself that he wasn't an effete intellectual like so many of his contemporaries on the left. He joined a militia in Spain, which I can assure you is much more restrictive of freedom and comfort than being told not not to go out for nonessential tasks. He probably would have responded to OP's histrionics with contempt.

>> No.17312248

>>17312172
>>17312238
you know you can just google this and find out what countries like australia and the UK do? you know that's totally possible right