This isn't about freedom, it's about responsibility and competence. Pandemics are our new normal. We've been anticipating pandemics for decades, in movies, bo

This isn't about freedom, it's about responsibility and competence. Pandemics are our new normal. We've been anticipating pandemics for decades, in movies, books, etc, and here they finally are. They are both predictable and predicted. There's a competent, pro way of handling pandemics, and incompetent, amateur way of handling them. The pro way is brief but comprehensive shutdowns + distancing + masks + sanitizing + testing & tracing + travel restrictions. It only takes 4-8 weeks of that to shut down a pandemic, then everyone can get back to being their normal, self-centered, freedom-loving selves. The amateur way is to scream about it like a child, refuse to take measures to help stop the outbreak, and be so brainwashed that you're unable to distinguish a conspiracy for a real emergency. Which is of course what Trump and half the US has done. Sometimes a pandemic is just a pandemic, not a conspiracy of the global elites.