to be clear, I don't think america should have a national vote on quarantine or just let people do whatever they want. the current situation has degraded too fa

to be clear, I don't think america should have a national vote on quarantine or just let people do whatever they want. the current situation has degraded too far for that. what I refuse to accept is that the notion of individual responsibility and reasoned debate is over forever. maybe this is naive, but I do believe that it's more effective to convince people they should work towards a goal than to impose rules by force. I will concede that the US is missing many of the prerequisites to make this realistic. people not being able to reason about exponential growth is a failure of the education system, not an intrinsic limitation of the human mind. people distrust information/directions from the government because it has repeatedly shown itself to be untrustworthy. people are unwilling to sacrifice months of income because they were barely getting by before.