I go down to the library and they got a police guard that walks around checking to make sure everybody is wearing their masks and telling them to put it all the way on if you dont have it over your nose. when you got police guards in a LIBRARY of all places just for that,you KNOW you are living in a policestate. damn this is a scary world. 1984 is for sure here.
It's essentially martial law. We're battling an invading force that kills Americans. Wartime powers apply. We need to be wary, and extra-vigilant to ensure that these powers are temporary, and not the "new-normal", but until we get the pandemic under control, we can't indulge our every civil liberty.
That's just a Band Aid on a gunshot wound. It was the Chinese who caused this, so now we're going back to an administration who would halt the sanctions and tariffs on China, and cozy up to them? Maybe invite them in to invest in the country, buy up more property, and build more projects here, as did the Italians?
So what happens when the next administration kisses and makes up with the Chinese, and they infect us with the next virus?