“See how this works?”
You are preaching to the choir. We didn’t get any shots and boycotted all shops and venues requiring masks and distancing BS. We had essential items delivered. We didn’t travel and stopped going out for entertainment and dinner.
We wore masks a few times to attend mandatory doctor appointments and to visit my mother in hospice. We were fortunate enough to be retired.. others were not so fortunate.
My point was not to suggest that people should submit or comply - my point was that what the government did was indeed force - even though not at gunpoint - it was still force and that should not be forgotten or forgiven.
I can tell that you are proud of your noncompliance - and you should be - I am too - but we can feel proud without minimizing the impossible choices that others were forced to make.
When someone gets raped, for example, and we think they should have fought back harder - maybe it’s time to have a little humility and consider that unless we are in their shoes, we do not really know what they faced.
I agree that the vast majority of people were weak and compliant - but we should not paint with too broad a brush - there was force involved. People should not be forced to make the choices some were forced to make.
Compliance has never stopped despots.