Cyber, you said: "The riots completely undermined the arguments for locking people down, and that may or not be an accurate perception. That is not the point. The point is, people are going to refuse to submit to the lockdown conditions they accepted 6 weeks ago."
"The riots completely undermined the arguments for locking people down,..."
How, Cyber? Are you saying the rioters did not get sick, therefore don't wear mask?
I am saying the media will never report them as being caused by virtue of being rioters. In NYC, the contact tracers are not permitted to ask if a COVID Positive patient if they participated in them. Yes, they'll get sick, but it will be Abbot, Trump and the hated Churches that caused the ghetto rats to get sick.
"...people are going to refuse to submit to the lockdown conditions they accepted 6 weeks ago."
Well, here, Gov. Abbott, today, made every business to get fined unless all the employees and customers wear a mask. That is his first change since the numbers went up so fast in the last several days. If he has business shut down due to the fast spread, he will encourage people to stay home. People in Dallas County/Tarrant County/Denton County, stayed home the first time. I think if the numbers get really high and business closes, they will stay home.
Workers are far more likely to refuse to go to work (if they can afford it) than they are to going into a workplace that requires the mask.
(This would be a good time to mention, as an aside, I worked on the Test Floor of a wafer fabrication facility, under clean room conditions. That means every day I wore a Bunny Suit, hood, spit mask (those are the cheap paper ones you see people wearing, not the N95), vinyl gloves and protective glasses. 6 years, 6 1/2 days per week.) I have no shyness when it comes to wearing the mask, but I won't anyway.
Abbot has taken his Scepter and ruled, so let's find out how omnipotent he is. Good ol' boys all over TX will be giving him the finger, and that's too bad, because I think there is a serious concern, and nobody in government (in either Party) is letting science dictate their actions. They're stampeding.
I'm worried as all get out, but not about the COVID-19. I am worried Americans are allowing themselves to be cowed into complying with orders that make no sense.
Reminder: For the first month, Drs Vauci and Birx insisted masks
won't help at all (even harm!), but when the supply of masks was assured, suddenly masks were
vital! Gotta wear 'em under penalty of law! Have you ever asked, even once, why that was? Hint: Factors unrelated to science were in play. They still are today, 6/25/20. And the demanded masks (or you will
surely die) still choke off enough Oxygen to drive blood saturation levels below those permitted by OSHA regulations. People driving their cars wearing a mask are still crashing their cars when they pass out from lack of O
2.
Yours is a valid perspective borne of hard fought experience. I have one too, borne of different experience. Right now, I think a lot of people just had the experience of months of politician-induced panic, followed by an insistence on the part of the same politicians we are to consider rioting to be an OK activity. What do you think
their experience has taught them?