In her article titled “Natural Rights” from 1946, Margaret MacDonald, writes (p. 242), “Does the ordinary citizen consider that he has no right to life and liberty because he agrees to (or does not protest against) the suspension of those rights in an emergency? He would be very unlikely to approve of such suspension if he thought the result would be the massacre or enslavement of himself, his contemporaries and possibly his children and descendants at the arbitrary will of a ruler or government.” Americans obeyed the lockdowns, enduring sacrifices, for a number of reasons, including the belief they’d be … Continue reading Where Are We in This Lockdown Drama?