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That's news to this Washington state resident, who couldn't eat indoors at restaurants or send my kids to in-person school through most of 2020.
by VagueMag 4y ago
That's news to this Washington state resident, who couldn't eat indoors at restaurants or send my kids to in-person school through most of 2020.
- mindslight 4y agoBusiness and school closures are not lockdowns. The abuse of terminology for political purposes is at the heart of this inability to communicate (and both political machines are guilty). If you could legally leave your home (ie you were not subject to a stay at home order with the force of law), you were not "locked down".
- VagueMag 4y agoThis is a bizarre definition completely at odds with the commonly understood meaning of "lockdowns" in the U.S.
- mindslight 4y ago"Commonly understood" by one political camp, which has hyperbolically defined terms to shore up the ranks. See my previous point. "Lockdown" evokes an idea of being uniformly unable to go out at all, which was most certainly not the case. Rather, the business and institutions that were closed were closed for specific reasons. For each venue we can debate those specific reasons - some were certainly ridiculously overbearing [0] - but grouping it all into "lockdowns" accomplishes nothing besides encouraging people talk past one another. [0] Non-controversial example: open air parks that were closed.
- washadjeffmad 4y agoYou could still get in your car and drive wherever you wanted, right? There just wasn't much to do. People were dying and we didn't know anything about the illness, though, so that wasn't that bad. It's like claiming you were a prisoner of war because the theme park was closed for maintenance when you wanted to go.