Hindsight

Uncle Ken seems to be saying that the only alternative to a lockdown is certain death.  What about all the people who supported the lockdowns and died anyway? I think I would have supported a national lockdown in the beginning, just as I supported the state lockdown in the beginning.  I seem to remember  that Uncle Ken wasn't so sure about it at first.  I believe his exact words were, "Can they do that?"  I assured him that presidents and governors can do a lot of things during a declared state of emergency but, not to worry, it's only temporary, "Thirty or sixty days, something like that."  Then they have to ask Congress or their state legislature for an extension.  If a national lockdown had been extended unilaterally and illegally like our Michigan lockdown was, I certainly would have been against that.  Now, after seeing what an expensive failure the state lockdowns turned out to be, I would not support a future lockdown, national, state, or local.    

In the days of the Cold War, it was not uncommon for Communists and their fellow travelers to call anybody who opposed them a Fascist.  I suppose that was left over from World War II when the Communists defeated the Fascists with a little help from the Americans and the other Allied powers.  Back in those days, the only difference was that a Fascist was a national socialist and a Communist was an international socialist, at least on paper.  Truth be known, Fascism was actually a front for German imperialism and Communism was a front for Russian imperialism.  Both isms commonly called anti-socialists "reactionaries", implying that socialism was a done deal and anybody who opposed it was living in the past.  Looking back on it, they may have been right, but I still want to be a reactionary when I grow up.