I have never seen Americans surrender so quickly and go into hiding. Maybe that is because a few mayors and some governors have threatened to arrest people who refuse to comply with commandments from on high to slow the transmission of this virus.
Strangely, those threats have been issued predominantly by leaders who typically rail about overzealous law enforcement against minorities, protesters, outsiders and the disadvantaged.
There are some reasons why fear took over; one being media types who are more interested in sensationalizing deaths rather than recovery rates. And there are too many people expecting the government to help them.
Government, both federal and state, isn’t very good at that. Politicians are unwilling to offer up realistic, workable solutions (that’s normal), which produces a herd of lawyers filing lawsuits and complicating any attempts to respond to the problem, which is also normal.
A multitude of experts, who mostly disagree with each other on how to proceed, far outnumber the many politicians who, after criticizing what action an opponent took or the other party suggested, lack the conviction to say, “Here’s what I would do.”
Bob SchultzBayfield
