Originally Posted by
BasinCruiser
All across the country, government leaders are shutting down businesses declaring them unessential, telling businesses what items that can and can't put on their shelves and declaring them unessential, closing down businesses, churches, locations that are gathering places for large groups of people, putting in other restrictions on actions and activities and behaviors due to their risk to personal and public safety- all of these controls and directives are being enacted by our government leaders under the guise that they are measures that will help protect public health and safety. How are they getting away with putting these restrictions on our rights and freedoms? They are basing their decisions on 'information and concensus from the scientific community that we are currently under a high risk public health crisis', and therefore to keep the public safe from this threat, they need to enact these measures, and the public needs to comply with them in order to make these measures effective, resulting in hopfully protecting as many people as possible from this threat.
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In this crisis, the battle lines are clearly being drawn between actions that are going to save lives by protecting them from this virus, and economic actions that are threatening the commerce, livelihood, and health of the community from jobs and the ecomomy. Where are the battle grounds for the rights and priviledges that we are losing to governement control in all of this?