| Are most people born since 2005 or something? All of the new government regulations I can think of that have impacted me personally that didn't exist when I was born (1980): * Seat belt laws * Can't smoke in bars and restaurants * Can't smoke within 50 feet of a door * Unaccompanied children at a park being considered neglect * Illegal to use a mobile phone while driving * Mandatory emissions checks to register a car * Legal mandates for chicken pox vaccine * Taking your shoes off and going through a body scanner to get on an airplane * Time of day/time of week restrictions on alcohol sale (existed when I was born, but not where I lived, so new to me when I moved to Texas) * Restrictions on how much sudafed you can buy * Restrictions on filling out of state prescriptions forcing me to pick up and mail medication to my wife when she was traveling * Real ID laws forcing me to make an appointment 9 months in advance and show up with what felt like 18 different types of proof I lived where I said I did in order to be able to vote * The State of Texas apparently just passed a law saying my block of 6 townhomes now needs to keep minutes and retain paper records and send all communications to each other via registered mail even though we live 20 feet from each other * I guess it's now illegal to get an abortion here? Granted, none of these ever happened all at once in response to an emergency. I guess your friends are just lucky to have never lived in a place that experienced an emergency before this? Living through the LA riots wasn't all that pleasant, either. Anyone who has ever lived through a hurricane has not only been told they have to close their business, but they have to abandon their homes completely and leave the city without any guarantee they'll ever be able to return. Sure, a national level emergency hasn't happened since the 1940s, and almost nobody alive today experienced that, but it is weird to see the divergence in response. As far as I know, shared sacrifice and repurposing of private goods to public purposes in the 1940s had the exact opposite effect. Especially since the measures were far more drastic. We didn't confiscate property and force Chinese Americans into internment camps this time around. |