# Make the Conservative Case for Overriding Various COVID restrictions **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 9, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-the-conservative-case-for-overriding-various-covid-restrictions/948289 "2021-08-09T11:45:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 97
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-the-conservative-case-for-overriding-various-covid-restrictions/948289/97 "2021-08-16T15:02:49Z")
To be honest, GD isn’t the place a person who is 25% Scottish by genealogy and 40% Calvinist by upbringing/disposition. I wrote to the conservative case here: > [@Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/1525): > > For starters, my apologies for not seeing your reply earlier. I’m going to use a word which was, and is, largely verboten around here, at least until recently. What I understand of morality, Octopus, is pretty much your typical Western Civ suburbanite layman’s understanding of ethics: Just do as the 10 commandments and the Golden Rule tell you, and you’ll be fine. To act otherwise is a ‘sin’, and, if you accept the eschatological implications of Christianity… as, again, most typical West Civ … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-the-conservative-case-for-overriding-various-covid-restrictions/948289)._