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Even the term: lockdown Free societies don’t have lockdowns. Prisons do. One would think that the government would come up with a better term, if only out of s

Even the term: lockdown Free societies don’t have lockdowns. Prisons do. One would think that the government would come up with a better term, if only out of self interest. But then perhaps that’s the point.

brink 6y ago
What happened last spring was more or less incarceration. We weren't free. We weren't allowed to leave our houses. The term "lockdown" works quite well.
- dashundchen 6y ago
  Outside the US maybe. Nowhere in the US was locked down. In fact a good portion of states never enforced restrictions at all.
  - da_big_ghey 6y ago
    Thankfully, while there were a few places that attempted to restrict outings to "essential" trips, it never was enforceable. I am not a fan of many things police do, but I am proud that my local sheriff announced that he would not enforce any such order.
- ssully 6y ago
  You very clearly have zero clue what life is like while incarcerated. You should be embarrassed by this comment.
Izkata 6y ago
A lot of places used "shelter-in-place", and officially over here it's still "stay-at-home". The colloquial term having switched so totally to "lockdown" is another symptom of people caring for it less and less.
- standardUser 6y ago
  I was endlessly annoyed by the misuse of the term "shetler-in-place" by so many state and local governments. At no point should anyone, anywhere have sheltered in place due to this pandemic, which is an established term in emergency management where people are instructed to shelter in whatever structure they happen to be located at the time of the emergency.
soared 6y ago
“Safer at home” was commonly used in my state.
- packetlost 6y ago
  WI? Nearly everyone I know still refers to it as 'lockdown' even if that's not what it's officially called.
marcosdumay 6y ago
The term is perfect, because it means the government stepping over your liberty during an emergency, so that there isn't a fundamental society crisis. It should require a huge amount of justification, and people should have little patience with it. The euphemisms some places use are Orwellian.

brink 6y ago

What happened last spring was more or less incarceration. We weren't free. We weren't allowed to leave our houses. The term "lockdown" works quite well.

dashundchen 6y ago
Outside the US maybe. Nowhere in the US was locked down. In fact a good portion of states never enforced restrictions at all.
- da_big_ghey 6y ago
  Thankfully, while there were a few places that attempted to restrict outings to "essential" trips, it never was enforceable. I am not a fan of many things police do, but I am proud that my local sheriff announced that he would not enforce any such order.
ssully 6y ago
You very clearly have zero clue what life is like while incarcerated. You should be embarrassed by this comment.

Izkata 6y ago

A lot of places used "shelter-in-place", and officially over here it's still "stay-at-home". The colloquial term having switched so totally to "lockdown" is another symptom of people caring for it less and less.

standardUser 6y ago
I was endlessly annoyed by the misuse of the term "shetler-in-place" by so many state and local governments. At no point should anyone, anywhere have sheltered in place due to this pandemic, which is an established term in emergency management where people are instructed to shelter in whatever structure they happen to be located at the time of the emergency.

soared 6y ago

“Safer at home” was commonly used in my state.

packetlost 6y ago
WI? Nearly everyone I know still refers to it as 'lockdown' even if that's not what it's officially called.

marcosdumay 6y ago

The term is perfect, because it means the government stepping over your liberty during an emergency, so that there isn't a fundamental society crisis. It should require a huge amount of justification, and people should have little patience with it. The euphemisms some places use are Orwellian.