Coronavirus in India: Failing to wear a mask means volunteering at a COVID-19 hospital

[packman]

"The Indian city of Gwalior has a simple order for those who fail to wear a face mask in public, they will be forced to work as volunteers at COVID-19 hospitals and police checkpoints.

Gwalior District Collector Kaushlendra Vikram Singh issued an order, after a meeting with officials as part of Madhya Pradesh government’s 'Kill Corona’ campaign.

According to the order, violators will have to pay a fine as well as work as volunteers for three days in hospitals, fever clinics, treating COVID-19 patients and at police checkpoints...."

And that is what is needed here!

https://gulfnews.com/world/coronavirus-in-india-failing-to-wear-a-mask-means-volunteering-at-a-covid-19-hospital-in-gwalior-1.1594222378090

[HotTeaBag]

1. Wow.

Never work here but awesome idea.

If we can't get people to simply wear a mask to protect themselves, but more importantly others because it 'violates their rights', imagine how well an order to make them work would go over.

I'll be curious to see how well it works in Gwalior.

[BComplex]

3. Disobeying a court order can land you in jail.

Either way, they would learn to wear a mask.

[HotTeaBag]

5. It sure can, which is where I was going (but not clearly enough).

Imagine what it would be like if we locked people up for disobeying a legal order to show up for work because they wouldn't wear a mask, in a country where just wearing a mask is apparently a bridge too far where their rights are concerned.

The 'you're infringing on my rights by recommending that I wear a mask' folks would literally blow this country up. Full-blown civil unrest.

[Mike 03]

2. This sounds a little like that program some cities have/had where people with

first time DUI convictions were made by judges to visit morgues to view the bodies of DUI crash victims.

[tblue37]

4. Except you don't expose yourself to a deadly illness just by visiting a morgue. nt

[soothsayer]

6. Tough love (or like Scared Straight)

[keithbvadu2]

7. Bet they'll wear a mask and any PPE they can get during their volunteer time.

Bet they'll wear a mask and any PPE they can get during their volunteer time.

Very faithfully.
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In Pakistan you are turned into a rooster if you leave during the Quarantine. Desperate times require desperate measures.

https://imgur.com/gallery/JXG51JO

[roamer65]

8. Make them serve as support staff for elder care homes.

Duties supervised by the regular staff.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. I would not want shit-for-brains malevolent anti-maskers anywhere near me in a hospital

They'd probably take medical waste and smear it on patients. Piss in ventilators. Shit in drip feed IV bags.

[ancianita]

12. Use cameras for malevolents. If caught on film, they get charged with attempted murder.

Though none should be assigned to be anywhere around patients who need expert care, they could be made to do sanitizing, and help remove dead bodies. Or even just watch the COVID frontline work for eight hours a day for at least three days in a CCTV monitoring room.

Your imagery, good lord!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Lock them into a chair with eyelid clamps, ala Clockwork Orange?

[ancianita]

16. Nah, we don't wanna stoop to their level. They'll see enough to change.

Forcing people to witness suffering is rough, but they'll know it's not nearly as rough as what the sufferers are going through, and they will come to realize they could have helped prevent.

[cp]

10. Good idea

Simple and direct.

[lark]

11. Damn, I wish the guy in charge cared about us, but he doesn't.

He's happy to kill us for his re-election purposes and won't stop for anything because he knows this is his only shot.

[ancianita]

15. It's a lesson in clarity for both parties. Rethugs who vote will now have learned to pay

closer attention to what human and economic damage their leaders do, and maybe (just maybe) up their standards in candidates.

They'll at least see what a sympathy for science and expertise is, even if they don't want to lean into it. Once green climate change industries offer jobs, they'll at least see some personal benefit.

Trump's own jail substitute should be to have to watch COVID suffering on a TV with no controls for him, for at least ten hours a day. He should also be on camera 24/7/365 as a record of his witness to reality.

[StarryNite]

13. Great idea!

[dickthegrouch]

17. No one liked it when I suggested it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213703735

[JI7]

18. I think wearing masks there was already common because of the pollution

in Asian countries Masks were already common for things like pollution or like Japan it was their police culture where if they were sick it was just polite to wear a mask.