RickBradford

The bigger problem is that it is known that people are infectious with Covid for several days before they show symptoms - such as an elevated temperature. So temperature checks are mainly a pacifier for staff and customers which have little preventative effect.

Please explain the differences between their political systems, regarding their freedom to speak up and be counted when going against the regime,s official pronouncements, which was the comparison I was making.

Meet the new normal. Same as the old normal.

Yup, almost as content as the North Koreans. In the 2019 North Korean elections, voter turnout was reported at 99.99%, and that "unanimously" the voters cast their ballots in favor of the registered candidates, ie Kim Jong-Un and his toadies.