Originally Posted by
ltomo
My worry is that a precedent has now been set. Some new thing will happen in the coming years, society will freak out to a similar degree, and the response will be just as overzealous.
I think masks are going to become mandatory every flu season from now on. If society justified forcing everyone to wear them for something that's barely worse than the flu, why not use them for the flu itself?
If governors were able to declare a state of emergency for Covid, why not fudge the numbers to make the next flu season look bad? Declaring a stare of emergency could be an effective way to swing elections.
We've crossed the Rubicon. Lockdowns and mandatory clothing are permanent pages in every politician's playbook from here on out, unless legislation gets passed that says otherwise.