COVID-19: Some Good Questions

As I write this we are in week 2 of the School District Shutdown.  The idea is that if we close all the non-essential businesses, we will stop the flow of the Novel Coronavirus Pathogen and we will "flatten the curve".   'Flatten the curve' has now become a hashtag.  I wonder who started it?

There are some serious issues with this type of decision making.  Local and state governments have forced businesses and schools to close.  Pat Buchanan a good question:

"However, during this shutdown, all “nonessential businesses” are being closed and their workers sent home to shelter in place and to keep “social distance” from friends and neighbors to minimize the risk of spreading this easily transmissible virus.

Unfortunately, what is “nonessential” to some — bars, restaurants, hotels, stores, cruise ships, tourist sites, shops, malls — are places of employment and indispensable sources of income for millions of other Americans."

There is also a larger point.  The government has forced these institutions to close.  When did they get that power?  Do you work for the government or does it work for you?  Apparently America has descended so far into Clown World Oblivion that it isn't even discussed.  

• Who spoke out about these dictatorial powers?
• Where is the ACLU?
• Why are the 'progressive liberal' states: NY and California, the most fascistic?
• Where did the Hamiltonian Ethos of a Free Market go?  
• Where is the Chamber of Commerce?
• Where is the Small Business Administration?
• Where is La Raza, the racist organization that 'protects' undocumented workers?
• Why do we accept these decisions from people who aren't punished if they're wrong?

All pathogens and viruses are dangerous.  Why is there such hammer-like force for this one?  There is real danger with the subservient acceptance of the government's response to The Novel Coronavirus.  Buchanan finishes with a chilling comment:

"“We had to destroy the village in order to save it,” was a remark attributed to a U.S. Army officer in the Vietnam War. Must we cripple or destroy the economy to rescue the American nation from the coronavirus crisis of 2020?"

Apparently, the answer is yes.  The trouble is, what was once a free country and a free people, founded on discussion, debate and logos, is now shackled by wild emotion and brute, dangerous unchecked, and unaccountable decision making.

What will you say when those types of decisions affect you harshly, or are done by a government official of the party you don't like?