Because politicians make the decisions.
Politicians force people to do things. That’s what passing a law does. Politics attracts people who want to order people to do things. So if there is a problem, their reaction is based on threats and coercion without even trying to persuade.
Their actions are stupid and done with little thinking. If they had a good strategy, they would be able to simply persuade people without using force. That they use force shows that their strategy is stupid.
Control by elitist, internationalist scum.
BTW, Barack, what did you shoot on Blackface’s closed golf course?
Most people think they understand what they perceive as simple data. Usually they miss both complexity and probable inaccuracy. This leads to faulty reasoning about what the universe looks like.
This includes politicians, who sometimes feel that they need to do something, especially when most other people of equivalent rank seem to be doing something.
I would combine the politician observation with a general poor intellectual formation of people, a tendency to be more emotionally driven than normal, and oddly enough a fear of death.
Young people don’t fear dying,, to some degree usually believing that they are temporarily immortal, but may fear parents or grandparent’s dying . Older people are generally either reconciled to dying or reconciled to eventually loosing the fight with death. Those most likely to go from this are those who are most likely reconciled, but many people in low-risk groups are having nervous breakdowns over risks that they vicariously take on.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
—Robert A. Heinlein
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H.L. Mencken
I seriously agree that there is some force or group behind this as it’s a world wide phenomenon, not just restricted to the US. Someone or some group with global reach wants the world converted to the iron thumb of socialism/communism. I suspect this has been in the planning for a long time and this “crisis” was just the opportunity to inaugurate their plan.
I’ve said since the start of this whole thing: Look for who’s behind this and who benefits. Follow the $$, but also, follow the power.
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.”
— George Orwell.
“Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today.”
—G. K. Chesterton
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
— H. L. Mencken
I agree, I think it’s as simple as government bureaucrats getting a glorious opportunity to release their inner totalitarian...worldwide. Bureaucrats don’t really change, regardless of the country they come from.
I believe the panic reaction was driven by the Chinese internal reaction. That seemed to be driven mightily by the belief that a truly deadly pathogen had been released. The CCP reacted to the release as if they thought it was truly as deadly as it had been designed to be in that lab. When the rest of the world, principally America saw that activity it reacted as if the Chinese knew they had released something like a highly contagious Ebola. From that point it just rolled on as politicians saw tremendous advantage in the lockdown and they all made a great power grab and moved to actually end the Constitution as any sort of guide to the American system.