The current Covid-19 "protective" measures seem to be the culmination of a decades-long trend of catering to the demands of the few at the expense of the many. It may have started with Title IX in 1972, which required equal participation in college sports, even though it led to the closure of many men's sports to achieve "parity."
This was followed by the ADA in 1990, which required expensive retrofitting of millions of businesses so that a person in a wheelchair could roll up a ramp, unassisted, into every single public establishment in the U.S. After that many states have required transgender bathroom facilities and allowed biological males to compete in female sports, both of which gave preference to the demands of a few over the interests of many (esp. women).
The latest and greatest iteration of these lopsided policies has been the lock down of our entire population as a precaution against infecting the relatively few who are at serious risk of death from Covid-19. The changing justifications for this extreme action, from preventing millions of deaths to saving our health systems from imminent collapse, have all proven (predictably) false. Why have we endangered our entire economy by quarantining everyone instead of those who are known to have particular susceptibility to this virus?
When are we going to stop this march to the sea of special interest madness??
This was followed by the ADA in 1990, which required expensive retrofitting of millions of businesses so that a person in a wheelchair could roll up a ramp, unassisted, into every single public establishment in the U.S. After that many states have required transgender bathroom facilities and allowed biological males to compete in female sports, both of which gave preference to the demands of a few over the interests of many (esp. women).
The latest and greatest iteration of these lopsided policies has been the lock down of our entire population as a precaution against infecting the relatively few who are at serious risk of death from Covid-19. The changing justifications for this extreme action, from preventing millions of deaths to saving our health systems from imminent collapse, have all proven (predictably) false. Why have we endangered our entire economy by quarantining everyone instead of those who are known to have particular susceptibility to this virus?
When are we going to stop this march to the sea of special interest madness??