ACTING upon the scientifically questionable assertion that healthy, asymptomatic individuals pose a significant risk of conveying lethal infection, ***some Americans are reporting small businesses, such as bars and golf courses, that have violated shutdown orders. According to the AP:

Naugatuck, Connecticut, resident Gwen Becker said she was “mortified” when she drove by a golf course and saw a crowd gathered around a food truck and eating at tables together. So she took a video that her friend posted on Facebook — prompting the mayor to shut down the course.

“I was angry and upset, and I threw some f-bombs,” said Becker, 54. “You’re not going to consider that what you’re doing could kill somebody?”

Ms. Becker must lead a pretty empty existence to be attracted to this Communist-style citizen policing. Besides group gatherings, especially outside, promote health. Social contact helps healthy people become immune to certain strains of germs, while benefiting from sunlight and the immunity-boosting side-effects of happiness.

This fanatical citizen police force — and the government apparatus that backs it up  — have no business telling people what they can and cannot do. Let people voluntarily restrict their movements in response to public health warnings.

Americans are so darn proud of their love of “freedom,” but it seems that’s basically just a love of fireworks on Fourth of July.

*** The science is unsettled. See articles here and here.

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