Any day now, after the “food desert” theory flops, we’ll see proposals for Government Feeding Stations in every neighborhood, where each of us is given a carefully metered and managed amount and quality of food in return for performing certain kinds of exercise—say, stationary bicycles which would in turn be used to generate electrical power—keeping us all healthy, trim, and above all, in compliance with state goals of how we should eat, behave, and remain useful. Maybe Government Washing Stations will follow, to be certain we all wash up before bed, and brush (and floss) our teeth. It would all be for our own good. And how good we would be.
We already have “cooling centers” in NYC during summer power outages, where the “community” can gather in air conditioning. Self-reliance is a thing of the past...