We should worry lockdowns or government-declared martial law (Levin tonight suggest that it is unconstitutional.) becoming permanent tyranny. Is killing the economy and killing our constitutional republic worth going through to save lives, however many or few. Answer: the price is too high. There has too be a voluntary, less severe way to protect public health.
The dire prediction of lockdowns being necessary to be implemented to prevent 100,000 deaths per state is likely a false, alarmist prediction goading the public to stampede and be willing to dump their free market systems, their way of life, their freedoms and their inalienable rights, including the right to bear arms.
The alarmist Left is ever ambitious, taking advantage of every crisis, turning a moehill into a mountain, the sly agenda being to stampede a frightened, irrational, hysterical citizenry into the waiting arms, begging the federal Leviathan to rescue them. That God of the Left, Big Government, benevolent, trusted and loved is only to happy to kill a gnat with a hammer, setting up martial law from coast to coast to reestablish public health.
For conservatives and libertarians, small, limited but strong federal government is acceptable, but executives, state or federal, with unlimited powers under lockdown may just decide that martial law is the new normal. We conservatives and Libertarians reject the legality of such a power grab. This cure is worse that the putative disease.
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