We are in a war. With germs, for sure. Fortunately, we are advanced enough as a civilization to realize the real physical reason that people are dying. This is good, and a real change from the past where ignorance, superstitions and bureaucracies caused hysteria and death.
So much for that cheerful idea.
Well, I only mention it because the bureaucracy part is never mentioned. One day bureaucracies will become advanced enough to keep up with the growth of the human mind and the expressions which make humans a miracle on earth. Note that in current, primative bureaucracies we are still doing horrible things to the populations . . not unlike the things we did as we grew through this stage of primative bureaucracy development. Do you remember the Sioux Nation and the actions of the US government in the Trail of Tears? Do you remember the Japanese internment? The list is too long to include here, and it’s growing every day.
Governments act in their own interest. If they are good governments, they work to benefit their constituents and humanity. Currently, in the United States they do neither because of Trump and the Republican party, who are acting in their own self interest.
We must think and act in the interests of our societies and ourselves, and not the bureaucracies that are still living in the past. It will take five hundred years before we understand how to make bureaucracies do what we want them to do. In the meantime, our bureaucracies will be entities, created by humans to manage human things, which will stagger through monumental atrocities in its attempt to do the right thing. . . or the wrong thing in our case.
So, in the interim, personal conviction, and a knowledge of what is right . . and wrong, should guide what we do, not a blind desire to follow the exigencies of the current bureaucracy.
So, Lockdown . . even if it hurts.