I think if you dig into it, you will find that government, especially local government, is a lot more powerful, constitutionally and traditionally, than most people realize. An event of this (pandemic) magnitude is probably not within the memory of any living American, but back in the bad old days quarantines, martial law, and all kinds of other exercises of government "police power" were rather more commonly used. The check on this is that a local government, being local, is a lot closer to the people being "policed" and can be held, theoretically at least, more accountable with direct elections, protests outside their windows, face to face town meetings and the like. I suspect that this "check" loses some power in big cities (and states) where percentage-wise relatively few vote and the elected officials are in fact physically and culturally distant from those affected by the state power (and not just during states of emergency).03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:36 pm
Wow! IMHO the government should not be "ORDERING" any legal business to shut down. It is OK to suggest it but to require it is stepping over the line. If this government intrusion on our rights continues, they will eventually get around to guns. Imagine being told that all LTC's were "temporarily" suspended in an effort to protect those who don't have an LTC from being shot. Sounds crazy but it is no different than requiring places to close in order to protect people from contracting China Virus. I don't like any of this. Not one bit!
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There are places where the local government has ordered "non-essential" businesses (that sell, for example, bird seed or furniture) to shut down, while allowing "essential business" (that sell food, gas, and the like) to remain open. Then the "non-essential" businesses complained that the "essential businesses" who had multiple product lines (like Walmart) were being allowed to sell "non-essential" products like birdseed and furniture, to the obvious disadvantage of the "non-essential" businesses selling the same thing that were forced to close. So now there are orders requiring the "essential businesses" to sell only "essential products."03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:44 amI was in Walmart on Tuesday picking up a water hose. The place was full of people buying everything but food. They were picking the garden department clean. I was in line behind a lady with three kids and a cart full of gardening supplies and plants. I kind of found it comforting that not everyone has been completely scared out of their minds.
Happy that Texas, at least my part of it, has avoided this so far.