Using the standards of non-Constitutional nations to judge what is reasonable in this country is utter nonsense. We are a representative republic, in which public opinion - right or wrong, governs our leaders actions. Our public has - in effect, demanded self quarantine. That may or may not be seen as prudent in the days to come, however, our leaders reacted appropriately. Politics is still politics for many people, and no matter what leadership does, they will still consider winning more important, regardless of the safety of the nation. That's human nature talking, and we have a system that is the best there is in tolerating such nonsense. It will never go away.

But our system might go away, particularly if we let some convince us that a virus like the ones that kill tens of thousands every year is reason to overthrow the Constitution. They have already been successful with their drip, drip, drip of clipping the Constitution to the point that we are now ruled by an impossible morass of Federal bureaucracy. Very few are alive today who remember what it was like before that became true. But maybe its time to respond by saying its time to restore Constitutional protection of our rights by overturning the decisions that crippled it.