Also, in case you haven’t noticed, we are not even remotely “locked down”. If you go downtown where I live (and in countless other cities in the USA) you will find people out horsing around, ignoring stay-at-home, eating at their restaurants, shopping for their khakis, and basically pretending the virus doesn’t exist. Traffic has not changed. People aren’t wearing masks (despite a statewide order). And where is enforcement? Nonexistent. I’m not convinced we can do a national lockdown because no state has even managed to implement a statewide or even citywide lockdown.
We have powerless leadership, proclaiming half-assed and unenforced orders, more worried about saying the right things than doing the right things.
If we were actually serious about beating the virus, downtown would be totally empty and I wouldn’t hear constant traffic and human activity from my backyard.
It’s bizarre to me that given the conclusion that this is the only solution people’s immediate instinct is to just say it’s not possible. Nothing’s possible if you don’t even attempt it.
Do you think an enforced national lockdown is feasible in the US?
Given the size of the country, the culture of independence, the relatively loose union of 50 states and other factors, my answer is no.