- 07 Apr 2020 17:12
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The strangest thing, in this strangest of months, is how willingly people have surrendered private freedoms for public good, “We’re closing all the pubs and restaurants.” Great, we reply. “You can’t swim or play football either.” Oh, all right. And you have to stop going to church, seeing your friends and even visiting your mum. Sigh, OK. In a few weeks, we have been deprived of a host of fundamental liberties: to work, to move, to socialise. Many Americans are now living in solitary, for 23 hours a day; some in extremely difficult conditions. But to an extraordinary degree, people have accepted this, and they have been sticking to the rules. In my poor part of Jerusalem, I have seen “gold standard” queuing, walkers pacing parks in pairs, and deserted streets. But we’re only in week two of what could be months of confinement. People will only keep complying with “authoritarian rules if the authorities remain just”. And so far, there have been too many reports of puffed-up officials applying the rules heavy-handedly, unnecessarily and, in some cases, wrongly.
source: http://www.vikilix.com/2020/04/07/keepi ... -lockdown/
source: http://www.vikilix.com/2020/04/07/keepi ... -lockdown/