Originally Posted by
Mark E. Hurling
The worst of it is that Pritzker the Hut imposed a one size fits all lockdown on the entire state when the real problem is Crook County. Better to have imposed a no travel in or out of Baghdad by the Lake. Most of the cases in Jackson County where I live resulted from an SIU student who went home to Chicago, got the Kung Flu and then returned to Carbondale and infected his dorm with it.
As depressed as this current state of snitching has developed something occurred to me last night. Despite our image of US citizens as better than we are, what is happening now has happened before during the Great War under Woodrow Wilson. He assembled a pervasive surveillance state, ostensibly for spies and saboteurs, but that also got used for surveilling Joe and Jane Citizen for signs of slacking and disloyalty to the US. It takes a little work to find the information, but we had eager snitches here even in the "good old days".