You cannot *lockdown* healthy people.
Covid-19 is contagious before symptoms appear. How, then do you propose to prevent infected people from spreading the virus before they have symptoms?
So, unless we plan on keeping the country closed till the end of time, we better plan to protect those deemed most vulnerable (nursing homes, in hospitals or severe comorbidity) as best as possible.
How is this to be accomplished? Lock up everyone who has a comorbidity or is over a certain age? The only ways I can think of to "protect" those who are most vulnerable involve way more loss of freedoms than being required to wear a mask when shopping or having to order take out instead of eating at a restaurant. Do you think locking a diabetic person in a "safe space" for life is really a solution?
*shrug* as an over 65, obese, diabetic, hypertensive, cancer survivor, yes I think that is a better solution than locking everybody up.
If I was allergic to peanuts, I wouldn't demand every peanut farmer plow his crops under, I wouldn't demand no child could ever have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I wouldn't demand that no ice cream sundae ever have crushed nuts.
My comorbidities, my problem, and my responsibility to minimize my own risks.
At the nully hacienda we've been hunkered down since 2/3, not just for me, but for my nonagenarian mom as well.
A school child, a twenty something store clerk and a 50 something middle manager have zero to minimal risk. Why are they locked up?
Power and the abuse of power, pure and simple. Our "betters" live for that as surely as a junkie lives for his or her next fix.