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It’s a slippery slope, and I do not like it one bit. Your rights are being denied, whether you know it or not.

I don’t disagree. Happily for me, I live in a state whose governor has not required closing of stores or schools. But all schools have pretty much closed on their own volition. The same goes for stores and restaurants. Virtually all dining rooms are closed but many are open for takeout. Our greyhound group has canceled all activities—again quite voluntarily, not on our governor’s orders.

But as my wife and I are in a “vulnerable” group because of the blessing of years, we are going out amongst others only with reluctance.

Stuff was closed during the “Spanish” Flu, many times on the orders of local authorities. American were much more used to “taking orders” back then than they are now. I’m optimistic; I think when this is over we’ll still be free.

Before the Spanish Flu there was Chief Tamany, Boss Tweed, Big Bill Thompson, Tom Pendergast and Richard Daly, just to name the more notorious crooks. Somehow, American politics have progressed light years away from the ‘good old days’ when these dinosaurs ruled. Locking people in might well be a slippery slope, but if you put down sand and wear galoshes, you won’t slip down the slope. The War Between the States instituted income tax for the first time, and saw a suspension of habeas corpus and freedom of the press, all three discarded after the war.

Interestingly, on tonight’s local news were people begging our governor to institute a “lockdown”. In his latest press conference Gov. Parsons said that 75 MO counties have fewer than 5 cases of Red Chinese Virus (OK he said “Corvid 19”) and that he wasn’t ready to lockdown the state—yet.