3 Comments
User's avatar
George Plummerwell's avatar

Thanks for voicing this possibility as I have thought about it for a long time. Everyone stock up for a month and stop using everything. Stay home, read, parking with neighbors. No planes, trains or automobiles ...

Expand full comment
TenaciousK's avatar

It's a pleasure to read you, Weldon. I think the public inertia is really rooted in the ambiguity, signal-to-noise problems, and the uncertainty about how one might respond. I told a friend of mine awhile back that when people started getting rounded up, decent people would take to the streets.

I will. But I wonder whether I'll be alone.

Expand full comment
Weldon Berger's avatar

Well thanks, Kirt. You're one of the most thoughtful people I know, so I take it as high praise.

My concern is that by the time the government gets to the point of rounding people up in quantities necessary to get Niemöller fans in the streets, protestors will just be helpfully identifying themselves as to who needs rounding up next. I think you'd be in very good company though.

Expand full comment