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The COVID-19 “Lockdowns” Are What Twenty-First-Century Mob Rule Looks Like<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As of April 6, forty-one states have statewide “stay-at-home” decrees in place. These orders vary widely from place to place<\/a>. In some states, there are long lists of exempted industries including marijuana dispensaries, liquor stores, hardware stores, and of course, grocery stores. In some states with these edicts, public lands, state parks, and beaches<\/a> remain open. In some states, city parks are more crowded than ever as local residents, with little else to do, attempt to recreate. In other places\u2014such as California\u2014one can be arrested for paddleboarding<\/a> all alone in the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet in all of these places, the current regime of rule by decree will have\u2014and already has had\u2014a devastating effect on many small and medium-sized businesses and their employees. As governments have created new arbitrary definitions of what constitutes an “essential” business, some businesses find themselves forced to close. Employees have lost these jobs. The owners of these enterprises will likely lose far more as debts mount and business investments are destroyed. As unemployment and poverty increase, the usual pathologies will arise as well: suicides, child abuse<\/a>, and stress-induced death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the politicians\u2014mostly state governors, mayors, and unelected bureaucrats\u2014remain popular. In New York State, where the lockdown orders are among the most draconian in the nation, it is now claimed that 87 percent of those polled approve<\/a> of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the situation. As Donald Trump’s administration has recommended ever harsher government limits on the freedom of Americans, his poll numbers have only improved. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, among critics there appears to be a misconception of these lockdowns (which are very often only partially imposed or enforced) as being imposed over the howls of the local population, which is being silenced and cowed by jackbooted local police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The COVID-19 “Lockdowns” Are What Twenty-First-Century Mob Rule Looks Like As of April 6, forty-one states have statewide “stay-at-home” decrees in place. These orders vary widely from place to place. In some states, there are long lists of exempted industries including marijuana dispensaries, liquor stores, hardware stores, and of course, grocery stores. In some states with these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2144,24866,664,14776,25781],"class_list":["post-52337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lockdown","tag-mob-rule","tag-quarantine","tag-ryan-mcmaken","tag-the-mises-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52338,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52337\/revisions\/52338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}