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“Lockdowns” are hugely popular with the general public Sounds like you have Joe Biden’s disease.

No, but I deal with the public every single day around COVID and I have since February.

I already admitted I could be wrong and put $50 on the line.

If there are "massive protests" (not yet defined) in Ohio over DeWine's new restrictions, I will admit I'm wrong and I will pay FR $50.

At 145 000 new cases a day, it's n more likely that there will be massive protests DEMANDING new restrictions, but, as they say in sports, that's why they play the games.

I can still string three words together, so I don't think I have Biden's disease, not yet anyway.

“Lockdowns” are hugely popular with the general public.
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I’m afraid he’s right.

In WI, the State Supreme Court cancelled Evers’ mandates 2x. In every instance, the red counties, which had already been refusing to comply, still increased visible mask-wearing and gathering-place avoidance and the blue cities/counties totally locked down voluntarily.

The fear in some places is palpable. It is business owners, but also, for example,health care workers. A positive test means 14 days at home AND also prevents the children in the family from going to school and the spouse or older children are also confined and unable to work. These are tremendous burdens, so people comply to *get it over with* and never seem to understand that it is never *over with*.

So, *popular* may be a misnomer. People are coerced into going along, reluctantly, out of fear of sanctions that are enforced through peer pressure. Not friends and family, necessarily, but by neighborhood nannies. And, of course, if the businesses close down to comply, by default, there is nowhere to go. This is why they are now upping the ante to limit home-based gatherings. If your friends and family won’t attend, there is no gathering.

People can communicate, but since the divisions are so pronounced, who has time for a phone or email or social media argument? Most of us are exhausted, which is one of the goals.

In my red county, I am aware of 3 restaurants I can visit if I want to and most employees in the stores are not masked. (this goes up and down...each time a new edict is proclaimed, there is an uptick in visible compliance, followed by disregard) Evers’ current edict is an *urging* and he is threatening to go to the legislature for actual laws. The hospital occupancy in my region is about 83 beds, total, for COVID.

The R legislature has the usual strong individualists in the Assembly and squishes in the Senate.