Yeah, sure, we would all have preferred to have responsible politicians who handled this correctly. Guess what? That ship has sailed. Most countries have "leadership" that handled this abysmally and now we have to deal with all this crap in order to flatten the curve until there are treatments and vaccines available.
My mom and dad are 73 years old and I don't give a damn about someone's tin-foil-hattery about "fighting the war on viruses 20 years from now", if I can keep them from dying. Go read some first-person accounts from people living in Italy, not just the ones about the roadblocks and forms you have to fill out, but also the ones from people who couldn't even say goodbye to their loved ones who died or the ones from HCWs about the collapse of their hospitals.
All of us who are pissed off about the lockdowns should hold on to that anger and express it fully after we have to stop worrying about our parents and grandparents being left for dead.
I don’t think it has to be a tinfoil approach though. I just mean, if we are going to restrict people, have aggressive sunset provisions on those orders (or poison pill the bill somehow to get more incentive to repeal it as soon as we beat this)
My mom and dad are 73 years old and I don't give a damn about someone's tin-foil-hattery about "fighting the war on viruses 20 years from now", if I can keep them from dying. Go read some first-person accounts from people living in Italy, not just the ones about the roadblocks and forms you have to fill out, but also the ones from people who couldn't even say goodbye to their loved ones who died or the ones from HCWs about the collapse of their hospitals.
All of us who are pissed off about the lockdowns should hold on to that anger and express it fully after we have to stop worrying about our parents and grandparents being left for dead.