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by whywhywhywhy 934 days ago
The concept of freedom of movement was already thrown out during covid, as we learnt with the patriot act if you capitulate "Ok, just this one time because it's a special circumstance" then you lose that freedom forever.
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Freedom of movement was restricted multiple times in the last 200 years; COVID was hardly the first.

I'm not arguing that this case is ok, though.

Where was freedom of movement restricted in the United States? I heard of restrictions in other countries, but not here. I spent all of peak COVID in North Dakota and Minnesota, so I understand things were likely different in other places, but I don't remember hearing about any sort of travel bans within the country.
"noncitizen nonimmigrant air passengers"
Oh ok that time they restricted movement didn't count, yeah ok.

The gaslighting about something that was barely 3 years ago that we all saw happen is getting wild.

There were technically curfews in big cities. But they were never enforced, to my knowledge.
I’d guess at most a single digit number of people faced any enforcement consequences of violating stay-at-home in all of the USA. It was purely government performance art to say they were Doing Something.