What is your proof?

Ohferpetessake, how much freedom will I have hooked up to a ventilator? Or, wait, dead, you fool!

@AnneWimsey Living in fear is not living. We all die and do not get to choose when that is.

@beenthere People who commit suicide choose when that is. As a matter of fact, it shouldn't be a crime to commit suicide. Death with dignity, and choosing when to end your life, should be a right.

Also, you shouldn't be able to play roulette with others lives.

"Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins" is the same as "your liberty to congregate ends where disease begins. "

@AtheistInNC I thought of it later and your are correct regarding suicide. I would not give up my freedom to prevent someone from trying to punch me. There is no authority to prevent that and I would want the freedom to respond. IMO, trying to control that preempts natural law as does controlling congregating.

@TheMiddleWay There is a difference between dictatorial behavior and a dictatorship. These are not absolutes. Unfortunately, freedoms are taken every day. A difference I see here is the speed and severity at which they were taken and the eagerness with which the public agreed to give them up.

@beenthere Your characterization of this as "dictatorial" is entirely a matter of your personal opinion. Simply passign and enforcing a law a restriction is not, in itself, dictatorial.

@AlasBabylon What dictionary are you using to define the word dictatorial?

Force can be an ugly word. Not long ago, some people in this country were forced to become sterile. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc... forced people into submission and our society once believed that was wrong. At what point does forcing others become unacceptable? How do you differentiate?

@beenthere There are rare instances when it makes sense for the government to compel people to behave responsibly. Global pandemics and war are two example.

in some areas, they have a patrol car parked on the street. If they leave the house, they are told to return, or be arrested.

@AtheistInNC that an monitoring their phones, if the phone leaves the residence they are tracked down and arrested, almost nobody leaves their phone behind on purpose these days, they wouldn't know what to do with themselves without their phone.

Scientists and Medically Trained Doctors and Nurses come in all Political Parties. Religion and Medicine are Oil and Water. Too much emphasis on religion and not on education or common sense is your problem. Your out of balance and spewing your obvious lack of it is what you should seriously look at.

This has got to stop being a gop or dem thing!! ALL Americans are at risk and those who stand by a person so willfully incapable as trump have blood on their hands. I want facts, I want medical and scientific professionals. I want people who understand the logistics of supply movement and availability!! If this does not wake people up to the need for elected officials not in the pockets of big corporate and the wealthy I do not know what will.

@TheMiddleWay If you are referring only to my post, it was meant as satire. If you're referring to the article it says nothing about the political leanings of the Kentucky governor or any other governor. In either instance there's nothing fake about it.

No. Not a fine! .... But perhaps a ""contribution" towards the costs of the police overtime required to ensure they remain in strict quarantine.

Ooh! That would be much simpler, wouldn't it? One church is easier to guard than dozens (hundreds?) of homes.

I have a nail gun!