The US response to coronavirus has been quite tepid compared to other countries. Still we should all be leary of the gradual erosion of individual freedom, especially from non legislative edicts issued under never ending states of emergency. Somewhere over the last twelve years America the concept of individual responsibility for our well being has disappeared. I guess we have become a nation of Karens and Pajama boy snowflakes who see government as their masters.
Conservatives believe that we have unalienable rights, granted to us by our Creator, that all men are created equal, the right to Life, the right to Liberty, and the right to Pursue happiness.
Leftists/Liberals do not believe this.
They believe that those rights, which WE as Conservatives view as given by our Creator (and thus CANNOT be taken away by a government or person) are given to us by GOVERNMENT.
And that is dangerous in the extreme. If you believe that your government gives you those rights, you have to believe at the same time, that your government may take them away at any time.
And in totalitarian countries...they do.
With impunity.
I fear that, as we as a nation that moves further away from a Judeo-Christian foundation, this notion becomes antiquated to the point it has no meaning.
In many ways, we are already there. They are likely waiting for those of us who do believe to die off.