My point is there’s something between the barbarity of the last century and the free wheeling anything goes of the other extreme.
If you’re ONLY looking at the end result, it would make sense to shoot everyone who tests positive for the virus. Classic ‘ends justifies the means’ thinking. That’s not our way. We need to find the path that works within the structures of a free people.
(China nailed the doors of some families closed to stop the spread - whole families starved to death - but it was ‘effective’...)
I wouldn’t call 1900 barbaric.
My great grandmother couldn’t vote.
She COULD own property, buy laudanum and own a machine gun.
She nor her husband paid income taxes.
What they earned was theirs.
She didn’t worry about CPS taking her kids if she gave them a well deserved smack on the a@@
‘Freedom’ will always be restricted by the behavior of narcissists. Either individually or by fiat (ie, laws).
Narcissist spreaders are the REASON we have quarantine laws.