In regards to everyone being altogether right in their own opinion...
I have tried to accommodate the sincerely held concerns of others. My biggest beefs are the non essential surgery cancellations and delays which I know actively killed people and caused enormous suffering; the extreme hypocrisy regarding BLM riots and Big Lib Funerals and any other gathering or funeral; and the first amendment mayhem in re restraining church worship.
As far as church worship goes I have been willing to tolerate many annoying things like requiring masks, requiring we sit in family groups, requiring a temperature check, or requiring hand washing. While I don’t like these sorts of things I’ll go along. They don’t violate my
conscience, at all.
Telling me my church cannot gather and worship as to the required elements of that is a bridge too far and completely unacceptable. As is telling me my dad can only have ten people at his funeral or my friend that his cancer biopsy is indefinitely delayed.
Part of the problem with how we’re “my way or die in fire” is these things just escalate. Where once churches could have met with government and figured out some middle ground a bunch of the churches just flat out ignore everything, so the government comes down harder, then the churches not only ignore the government but put up signs announcing it, government comes down HARDER. Every single issue in America is now a bad Will Ferrell joke.
Of course it’s not helped by making wrong moves. I understand the fear that’s why they postponed all those surgeries. But the math wasn’t there. Really when most states were kicking around a hundred cases they should have been moving surgeries FORWARD. Get em done before we needed the beds. Wrong steps like that just fuel the argument of the other side.