>all efforts to stop it faced an attack Lockdowns, and the labeling of society into "essential" and "non-essential", occurred nearly everywhere with no debate

>all efforts to stop it faced an attack Lockdowns, and the labeling of society into "essential" and "non-essential", occurred nearly everywhere with no debate at all. The most basic freedoms guaranteed to us - the freedom of movement, association, free speech - were taken away from hundreds of millions of people who had literally no say in the matter. What world were you living in where these restrictions were only nominal? They literally roped off certain sections of businesses preventing people from buying non-essential products. It was everywhere.