Originally Posted by
SASless
Canadian truckers stood up....look back to the Covid Mandates for an example of how passive populations can be in the face of government over reach
I never really understood why some people get confused between two very different types of actions that governments can take
On the one hand you get something like what's going on in Russia where that government starts an unjust war then makes people go and fight it using outdated equipment all while making its own citizens destroy the infrastructure of the country they chose to invade. Anyone who dares to resist is taken away and punished
On the other hand you have a pandemic disease that in the end killed over one million people in the US alone and various governments around the world take the stance that it's a deadly threat and they should do something about it to protect their citizens and because it's all so new with so few data points, they realise (correctly) that wearing a mask might go some way towards reducing the eventual death toll. They are in fact doing the job we elected them to do which is to protect the population. Also it's worth noting that it wasn't a mask "requirement" - it was a requirement to wear a mask when around other people, so those who refused to do it were in fact putting other people's lives at risk
Florida and Texas both ended up banning any mask mandates. Those actions probably added a significant number of deaths to the over one million the US suffered