Joe,
I don’t know why you need to overstress civil disobedience compared to the degree at which it actually happened (which is very very limited) and claim at the same time that your usual individualist behaviour remains applicable?
It seems like another huge contradiction.
Why not face the reality that a large majority of Americans, especially in the most impacted places where the lockdown was most enforced, understand the need to be very careful about reopening and are acting accordingly? Probably because they understood that the economic impacts were causes by the delayed response to the pandemic. They have learned from the past mistakes and want to avoid this happening again if reopening isn’t done reasonably. Again for the sake of economy.
I can’t know what your motivations are but you wouldn’t behave differently if your objective were once again partisan politics. If feels like you are trying to spread an image of widespread sharing of Trump’s directions against the facts.
Cheers,
Bernard
This is just not the case Bernard. Our most effected demographics were seniors with pre-existing conditions. Certain geographic areas may have been hit harder then others, but none the less it is seniors we need to worry about.
With all of this I have yet to hear any good plans in my state to protect the vulnerable, which we fail dramatically to do.
Other states did it well without destroying freedoms, and it worked, including on OH, a blue state. PA, NY, NJ, I am disappointed in them. What they have done was a total failure for our elders and they are trying to have us ignore it by putting up a smoke screen, IMO.
Insofar as civil disobedience, it is happening a lot more then what the foreign press (in your country) is reporting. Much of it is not protests in the street, but people just doing what they do and going out, providing services regardless of what their government says. When a barber on my block made his store look closed and started having his patrons use secret knocking codes to get in, that does not get that much press. But I, and others, noticed it, only we are not rats and never turned him in. Our economy is being much more effect by these lock downs then the virus. With the virus, we would have learned to self adapt by now and would be operating again. But now, we are at like 25% compactly.
FYI, this is America, and we believe in our freedoms. I was speaking to a family member tonight who is pro lock down and we got to the conversation about SK. He said he would never want to see what they are doing here because of the effect it would have on our freedoms. You may feel different, but then again I find much of the world outside the USA has a tolerance for dictatorship.
We dont, and I would rather have dangerous freedom then peaceful slavery.