[01100011]

The alternative is recognizing social distancing isn't working. If browbeating people into it doesn't work, then we, as a free society, are stuck. People are, apparently, not responsible enough, as a whole, to follow best-practices. Those best-practices only seem to work if people are nearly fully complying with them. Half-measures are, seemingly, useless, and impose a significant cost. Maybe establishing a government delivery service and tax credits for vulnerable people to go into long-term quarantine is better? I don't know. Initially I was strongly in favor of social distancing, but it was based on an incorrect assumption of how socially conscious my fellow Americans are.

[Fjolsvith]

Americans are free spirits, unlike people from more structured or rigidly governed countries. They're not used to giving up their personal freedom when someone tells them its for the good of all.

So unlike the Chinese, who shutter themselves obediently and trustingly at the whim of their government.

[elpatoisthebest]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I remember videos of Chinese people, very unhappily, being forced to stay in their homes by armed guards, as opposed to them obediently trusting their government.

Maybe I'm misremembering?

[blaser-waffle]

Don't forget when members of the local government in China were welding doors shut on apartment buildings.

People could still get out if they really needed to, but they had to go through the main entrance where they were screening people for symptoms.

[Fjolsvith]

That gunpoint trust has to be earned.