> We locked down Oregon over what was happening in NYC. That is akin to Northern Ireland locking down because of Moscow. That isn't an exaggeration. If anything

> We locked down Oregon over what was happening in NYC. That is akin to Northern Ireland locking down because of Moscow. That isn't an exaggeration. If anything, it is an understatement. Yep, this right here is the problem. Unfortunately, social media and the 24/7 news cycle (that magnified 100x by social media) has meant that people react strongly to events that have no effect on them, and then go and do things which have no effect on the underlying cause, just because they saw people doing is thousands of miles away. This is what happened with the COVID lock downs. People panicked when they saw NYC, but there was no reason for most place to lock down (when they did). Far better to wait for a more effective time. But no, you had people slamming governors for doing nothing in states that had very few cases. This extends to a ton of other causes and problems. See the BLM movement. You have people protesting in countries that have nothing to do with George Floyd and a very different police force, risking their lives and others by spreading covid, because they saw people on the news in another country protesting. Utterly absurd.