Originally posted by MarkJerling Maybe we can organise an intervention or some such for "Disciple" Brian.
I don't know which part of the Bible (if any) he reads. It was really convenient for us that the first lockdown last year occurred over Easter. I explained to my daughter, hey, this is inconvenient, but it's just like the ancient Israelites did thousands of years ago, and we get a long weekend out of it as a result. Sure, Passover was only a one night lockdown to avoid a plague, but it was really useful to have an analogy to demonstrate that humans have been doing this kind of stuff for millennia.
Actually Leviticus is fully of various rules requiring mandatory self-isolation in case of suspected disease, so I simply don't get why the 'Ten Commandments' brigade are against lockdowns. I'd have thought they should be cheerleaders for them, and if anything, demanding more.
Actually I think there's some rumour that during the Black Death, Jews ended up getting persecuted because they weren't dropping like flies like everyone else, because they practised better hygiene, so someone came up with the conspiracy that they must be causing it.
The word 'quarantine' comes from the plague days and literally means 40 days of isolation, that was imposed on ships and their crews.
A pandemic, conspiracies, isolation; we 21st Century humans don't seem all that different to our 14th Century ancestors. At least you don't need to have the skills and patience of a Dutch master to reproduce a nice picture though.