When Covid first hit, we did not know what we were dealing with.
It looked bad and hospitals looked to be on the verge of being overrun with cases. 15 Days to Flatten the curve to give hospitals a chance to not be overwhelmed was not asking too much and people thought it was reasonable and went along with it.
After all, it was only two weeks, an inconvenience at best.
If we had known what it would turn into, I doubt very many people at all would have agreed to it.
The biggest lesson to be learned from this is what the government will do if given that kind of unbridled power.
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We know about the immortality of government programs. Once the government handles power like this it becomes hungry for any pretense to do it again. This is the reason why the constitution enumerated the boundaries of government. Our constitution was never written to ‘grant’ rights to citizens. The constitution was specifically written to restrict what the government was allowed to do. And it was written to offer a remedy should that government violate that social contract.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
~ Declaration of Independence ~