I mean, a lot of it I think has to do with the lockdown rules being fairly obviously being written by the dumbest people in the room.
As a couple of examples, here where I am they shut down all “nonessential” jobs and it rapidly became clear that they had no idea what was actually essential and no idea what actually spread the virus. Specifically:
Automotive repair shops were shut down entirely for months. It’s as if they had no conception that all those “essential” transport jobs to get food back to the stores actually have to do vehicle maintenance. It wasn’t until shipping started to take a hit that they actually listened to complaints.
“non-essential” rural workers taking advantage of the down time to catch up on maintenance were having jack-booted thugs show up on their property (in the middle of nowhere, with no workers who didn’t live on-premises) and order them to cease working and go sit inside their homes because somehow that would make everyone safer. Never mind that these people’s only possible exposure would have been coming directly from the aforementioned jackboots.
Logging and mining operations that go weeks on end with little to no outside contact ordered to shut down and send all their people home, despite the fact that those people were almost certainly at less risk of exposure working in a remote region than back in the city or town.
I expect it’ll be less an anti-lockdown backlash than an anti-idiot backlash. But people may have a hard time differentiating the two.
I mean, a lot of it I think has to do with the lockdown rules being fairly obviously being written by the dumbest people in the room.
As a couple of examples, here where I am they shut down all “nonessential” jobs and it rapidly became clear that they had no idea what was actually essential and no idea what actually spread the virus. Specifically:
Automotive repair shops were shut down entirely for months. It’s as if they had no conception that all those “essential” transport jobs to get food back to the stores actually have to do vehicle maintenance. It wasn’t until shipping started to take a hit that they actually listened to complaints.
“non-essential” rural workers taking advantage of the down time to catch up on maintenance were having jack-booted thugs show up on their property (in the middle of nowhere, with no workers who didn’t live on-premises) and order them to cease working and go sit inside their homes because somehow that would make everyone safer. Never mind that these people’s only possible exposure would have been coming directly from the aforementioned jackboots.
Logging and mining operations that go weeks on end with little to no outside contact ordered to shut down and send all their people home, despite the fact that those people were almost certainly at less risk of exposure working in a remote region than back in the city or town.
I expect it’ll be less an anti-lockdown backlash than an anti-idiot backlash. But people may have a hard time differentiating the two.