And our reasons for doing it today are precisely the reasons they did it then…to spread out its impact.
My point was no one looked at it as if the government was going to seize their freedoms forever. They did what they needed to do.
We are so much different today than they were then…we have taken individualism to such a ridiculous degree that community response (which is not the same as Socialism/Communism) is all but dead.
A crisis that requires a shared understanding of what needs to be done and a united response couldn’t have come at a worse time in our country.
We don’t even have a common understanding of what community is, and we have this misunderstanding that a coordinated response means we are waiting for the “government to save us”.
Once people had it, those who survived developed immunity that lasts quite a few years or until a new strain develops for which they are not sufficiently immune.
These respiratory viruses have been hitting us seasonally for as long as humans have congregated into clans and larger groups.
As transportation gets faster and faster and more of the globe can be reached they have gone from being localized outbreaks to regional, then national, then continental and finally global in nature.
Unless we seriously rethink international travel they will become more frequent and eventually we’ll have one for which we have no real treatment that is very deadly and we’ll have a mass culling of the global population as a result.