Commentary
Unless we just decide to forget, historians will look back in astonishment. Healthcare spending declined in a pandemic.
People were blocked from their houses of worship.
Choirs couldn’t sing.
Drones flew the skies to ferret out and report house parties.
Rental cars were fumigated with something.
Crossing a state line meant mandatory two week quarantines.
Dentistry was largely banned.
Forget elective surgeries. They were banned. And for months, in most parts of the country, from mid-March to about June 2020 if not longer, getting a haircut was illegal. It was a result of disease panic for sure but more. Governments decided that they knew the risks better than people, and so would not allow people to make their own choices.
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