The average human is weak and will blindly follow anyone in authority.
That echoes a woman we met on our (ruined) vacation last summer. Our destination had just enacted a ‘county-wide’ mask mandate a week before we arrived, which we didn’t find out until we were 10 minutes away. Everyone there thought they were headed for freedom, and everyone was bummed.
I’ve never seen so many vacationers sitting on benches in the one local park staring glumly at the water and wishing they hadn’t come.
We were outside a closed restaurant in a tiny tourist town at 7pm on a Saturday evening at the peak of the tourist season. The restaurant and one of the two bars in town weren’t even bothering to open as a result of the mask mandate. The other bar was “carry-out only”. WTF?
The woman, also disappointed and gobsmacked by the mandate, said “People are easily led”. How true those words are.
Little did we know at the time that this insanity would be upon us for another 9 1/2 months before glimmers of sanity and sense began to show through.