11-09-2022, 12:47 AM
(11-09-2022, 12:32 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:(11-09-2022, 12:17 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: People found ways, not always fully satisfying, to do what they most needed to do. Big Business did what it needed to do to get its activities done again.Unless they were a small business owner who was forced out of business. They were not able to do what they needed to do.
If you are talking about restaurants, many went take-out only. The ones who got hurt were often the wait-people no longer getting the tips to which they were accustomed. Government could do such things as take away liquor licenses to those places that served drinks. I must tell you that one of the most dangerous places to go during the plague was a bar full of loudmouths. If I owned a bar, then maybe I would require that customers wear masks to get service and that they drink their quaff through straws. Drastic situations often require drastic measures, and so it was with COVID-19.
Quote:I saw the masks and a vaccine as minor inconveniences in contrast to being hooked up to a respirator because of COVID-19. Does death constitute freedom? That is your call and not mine.
My view on masks is largely the same. What I took most issue with with regards to mask was the way many of my friend with breathing problems were shamed and coerced into wearing masks when they having trouble breathing. People didn't take the time to get any personal information before going after people who had important and perfectly legitimate reasons for not wearing one.
What was more than a minor inconvenience was the forced lockdowns, and there effect on the aforementioned small business owners who, in my opinion, are the backbone of America.
Even the Pope demanded that Catholic churches close so that Masses would not be super-spreader events. I would guess that the Pope warned that non-compliance would result in being defrocked. So watch Masses on EWTN. Catholic or not, people came to recognize much the same about much else.
People who defied the warnings all too often ended up dead.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.